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Crystal Reports Tools: Improve Performance While Saving Time and Money |
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Crystal Reports Administration: Security TipsHow can you make your Crystal Report secure? One of the great things about Crystal Reports is how widely they appear to be used. Financial, Operational, Sales and Production reports all can be designed using the same application. Web Delivery using Crystal Enterprise or a Windows-based viewer can be used to process your report. There is a lot of valuable intellectual property included in a report design. We can see why a report designer might want to protect this valuable investment. The open design of Crystal Reports makes this difficult. We see several things you may want to hide from public view
Delivering reports as HTML or PDF can protect the information hidden inside the database and report, but essentially, anyone with the Crystal Report designer can open the report and see how the report was built. In the past, we have looked at different ways to secure a report design. Various methods suggested include:
These all sound great. However, one of the functions available inside all these report viewers is the ability to "Export" the report. As long as you have this available, you can export to a Crystal Report format and then use your report designer against the exported copy of the report. Our view is that you would have to disable the export to the Crystal format to keep your report secure. Any security attempt that doesn’t do this leaves a big hole. So here is a challenge to our readers. How can you deliver a solution to your customers that stops them from looking at the rpt design itself? The Challenge
This article will be updated with solutions to this challenge. Please come back at the end of May!
See our related article: Crystal Reports Administration: Security Issues.
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