Creating a Crystal Reports Viewer page

You can create a JSP page that uses either the Viewer Tag Library or the Java Viewers SDK to display reports.

Using the Viewer Tag Library allows you to access the report viewing capabilities of the viewers without needing to embed large amounts of Java code in your JSP pages and is the easier option. However, if you need to control the output at runtime (for example, passing in a database logon or setting parameter values), then you should use the Java Viewers SDK.

To create a new Crystal Reports Viewer JSP page

1. In the Project Explorer view, right-click a saved report, and click Crystal Reports > Create Viewer JSP.

A dialog box opens.

2. There are two options:
• To use the Viewer Tag Library, select the “Insert Standard Tag Lib code” option. Click OK.

  A new JSP page is created that contains the Tag Lib code to display the report. For more information about the Viewer Tag Library options, see Viewer Tag Library.

• To insert Java Viewers SDK sample code, select the “Insert CrystalReportViewer API code” option and then select the appropriate check boxes for the sample code that you want to include in your JSP page. Click OK.

  Customized sample code (commented out) for the options you selected is inserted into the JSP page. The code that is generated is specific to the selected report that launched the wizard. The new JSP file is created in the same folder as the report.