The knowledge in this article involves: Crystal Enterprise Report Application Server 9 Suitable for: Refers to the reported version CE RAS 9 and CE characteristics comparison
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What is the main difference between crystal enterprise report application server 9 (CE RAS 9) and crystal enterprise (CE) 9 other versions?
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Crystal Enterprise Report Application Server (CE RAS) 9 is only included on separate CDs provided with Crystal Report 9 Professional, Developer Edition, and Advanced Edition. ====================
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Although Crystal Enterprise Report Application Server 9 (CE RAS 9) is similar to the name of Crystal Enterprise (CE), they are different products and cannot be used in the same way.
This envision will be beneficial, RAS 9 as a development environment, used to view and operate reports, and CE is an account management tool.
The main difference between CE RAS 9 and CE is:
View reports -------------------
Use CE RAS 9 to view the report, there are two options:
· Eportfolio Lite - an included ASP application to select the report and view the user, provide the interface. To start it, select 'Start'> 'Program'> 'Crystal Enterprise 9'> 'Report Application Server Launchpad', and then click 'Launch Eportfolio Lite'.
• Custom ASP / JSP - Use Crystal Report Developer Edition or advanced version, users can choose to view the report by creating an ASP or JSP program.
Use the Crystal Corporate Standard Edition and Professional Edition to view the report, there are three options:
· URL report - you can call and display reports from the URL, for example, http: //myserver/myreport.rpt.
· Eportfolio Lite - an included ASP application to select the report and view the user, provide the interface. To start it, select 'Start'> 'Program'> 'Crystal Enterprise 9'> 'Report Application Server Launchpad', and then click 'Launch Eportfolio Lite'.
· Custom ASP / CSP / JSP - Developers can choose to view reports by creating ASP, CSP, or JSP programs (only in the professional version).
Safety, scalability, and easy management --------------------------------------- ------------
· CE RAS 9 relies on built-in Windows security, and must be run on a single server and there is no ability to scheduling the report.
· CE Standard Edition and Professional Edition has built-in security features, which can be expanded to multiple servers and have the ability to scheduling reports.
