Protecting crystal rpt

what can we do to protect the cyrstal rpt after putting on
client machine so that the user or anybody should not open or
ever if possible should not be able to see

can somebody advise

You can include the reports in your exe (no rpt files), by using the report viewer.

Examples are located here:

http://support.crystaldecisions.com/...s/apps_rdc.pdf

i have seen the site but didnt get any thing related to my qry

can u explain me how to include the rpts in exe

From the main menu select 'Project' and 'Add Crystal Reports x.x'.

When the Crystal Report Gallery screen is displayed, clcik on the 'From an Existing Report' (I assume that you already created the report).

This will add a new form containing the report viewer and a designers object, which is your report.

You must now go to 'Project' / 'Properties' and change the Startup Object back to what it was, since crystal changes it to the new form with the report viewer.

You will need to modify your code to load the report viewer with your report. You can use the same report viewer to display more than one report.

showVendorDetail is a sub on the form containing the report viewer. To call it

Code:

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  call showVendorDetail

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Code:

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Public Sub showVendorDetail()
 
  Dim crxVendorDetail As New crVendorDetail
 
  Set crxVendorDetail = New crVendorDetail
  'Change report tables locations.
  For Each crxDB In crxVendorDetail.Database.Tables
    crxDB.Location = strSearchResultDataBase
'    crxDB.SetSessionInfo "", Chr(10) & strPassWord
  Next crxDB
 
  CRViewer1.ReportSource = crxVendorDetail

End Sub

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To get a better understanding of the report viewer, you will have to download some of the examples in that document.

Good luck.

Ken Bradford thanks 4 your reply
I have tried as you advised me but i didnt fount the
'Add crystal Report ' in Project menu
so i couldnt move ahead can u tell me how to make it available

What version of cr are you running?

To be able to see: Crystal Reports # in the Add menu in the PRoject explore you should have to have enabled it in:
Project...Components...Designers
and select the Crystal Reports version that you have.

Then it´ll appear in the project explorer