Blog tagged as Ripplestone

Using Wildcard Parameters with Crystal Reports and Ripplestone

By Brenda

While working on the next version of Ripplestone, a client had asked about if and how Ripplestone will handle wildcard parameters in a Crystal Report.  I had not used wildcard parameters for a while, so I decided to dig in and build some reports with wildcard parameters and see how they wo...

16.06.09 06:34 AM - Comment(s)

Running Ripplestone on Vista and Windows Server 2008

By Brenda

I was working with a Ripplestone client to get the software installed on a Vista PC and had a do a few things different than if this was XP Pro or Windows Server 2003.  The main differences were that Vista and Windows Server 2008 use IIS 7 and the .NET framework 1.1 is not installed by default.

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16.06.09 06:34 AM - Comment(s)

Crystal Report Performance Tip – Stored Procedures

By Brenda

 As I work with clients and their Crystal Reports, one of the items that will come up sooner than later is how to increase the performance of their reports.  The performance issue becomes more noticeable once the reports are published into Ripplestone and the users are interactively runnin...
05.06.09 04:07 PM - Comment(s)

Change the Crystal Reports Set Datasource Location for Ripplestone

By Brenda

One of the more common questions I get from Ripplestone users is how to change where the Crystal Report is getting the data from for the report.  Or a related question is that after a report is published to Ripplestone it gets an error stating that the report can no longer find the data source....
04.06.09 04:10 PM - Comment(s)

Crystal Reports Group Ranges with Specified Order feature

By Brenda

Display how to use the Crystal Report Specified Order feature that is part of the Group Expert.
01.06.09 07:18 PM - Comment(s)