Copying processing extensions onto each server

The Crystal Enterprise installation creates a default directory for your processing extensions on each Job Server and Page Server. It is recommended that you copy your processing extensions to the default directory on each server. On Windows, the default directory is C:\Program Files\Crystal Decisions\WCS\ProcessExt; on UNIX, it is the crystal/processext directory.

Tip:    It is possible to share a processing extension file. For details, see Sharing processing extensions between multiple servers.

Depending upon the functionality that you have written into the extension, copy the library onto the following machines:

• If your processing extension intercepts schedule requests only, copy your library onto each machine that is running as a Crystal Job Server.
• If your processing extension intercepts view requests only, copy your library onto each machine that is running a a Crystal Page Server.
• If your processing extension intercepts schedule and view requests, copy your library onto each machine that is running as a Crystal Job Server and/or as a Crystal Page Server.

Note:    If the processing extension is required only for schedule/view requests made to a particular Server Group, you need only copy the library onto each Crystal Job Server/Crystal Page Server in the group.