Operation Manual

What’s New in Crystal Reports XI
Expanded application-development capabilities
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Report Application Server (RAS)
Report Application Server XI contains many new features. Notable among
these is dynamic prompting and cascading lists of values, an editable RTF
export format, single-sign on support, complete programmatic control for
subreports, and dynamic image locations. Backward compatibility continues
to be a critical feature—no APIs or major features were removed from this
release when compared with version 10.
New APIs
• Full programmatic control for exporting has been added.
• New cross-platform printing support from RAS SDK has been added.
• Full programmatic control to retrieve, modify, and create subreport
objects—to the same level of detail as the main report—has been added.
• Images in BMP, JPG or PNG format can be added programmatically to
any section of the report.
• Single Sign-On is supported for major databases with managed reports.
• New extensible URL Reporting components allow easy report viewing
over the web with the ActiveX, Java Plug-in, or DHTML viewers.
Enhanced deployment options
• There is now one merge module that works for all RAS, .NET, and COM
deployment scenarios to IIS Web Application Servers.
• Enhanced configurable deployment options allow full control over
deployed database and exporting DLLs. As well, a configurable option for
whether the
crystalreportviewers11 IIS virtual directory is created
has been added.
Improved report viewers
• The ActiveX, .NET Winform and Webform, and DHTML viewers have all
been enhanced to use the dynamic prompting functionality, and they all
have the ability to export to the editable RTF format.
• See the Viewer Java SDK Guide for a complete list of enhancements to
the report viewers.