The Crystal Report Viewers

The Crystal Report Viewers allow you to view reports, navigate through multiple pages, refresh data, drill down to see details behind charts and summarized data, select parameters, and so on. As well, the viewers have powerful printing and exporting capabilities.

The online Crystal Report Viewers support ActiveX, Java, and DHTML. Your Crystal Enterprise administrator can select the viewer type best suited to your company's needs. You can also manually select your preferred viewer type through the Preferences page. For more information, see Selecting your public view preferences. The selected viewer is launched each time you choose to view a report.

You can view your reports using any of the following online Crystal Report Viewers:

• ActiveX viewer
• DHTML viewer
• Java viewer
• Java Plug-in viewer
• Navigator Plug-in viewer

You can also view your reports when not connected to Crystal Enterprise by using the Crystal Offline Viewer.

Note:    

• Crystal Report Viewers for Java and DHTML can be used on any platform, while the Navigator Plug-in and the ActiveX viewer are made specifically for Windows environments.
• Some features of the Crystal Report Viewers may be disabled by your Crystal Enterprise administrator. Contact your administrator for more information.