Where can I get a single license for Crystal reports cheaply for education?

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Theodore VanPatten 2
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Where can I get a single license for Crystal reports cheaply for education?  I googled it and there are so many vendors. I want to be able to tweak the templates in RE and FE and possibly create new ones. It would be just me using the license, so maybe a desktop version.


Also, side note where can I get SSMS, SSRS licensing as well?


Thank you,

Ted
Theodore Van Patten
Manager, Constituent Database
State College of Florida Foundation
941-752-5336
PO Box 1849, Bradenton, FL  34206

 
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  • John Heizer
    John Heizer ✭
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    Your purchase of RE should include one copy of CR.
  • Cathleen Mai
    Cathleen Mai ✭
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    Yes, Crystal reports does come with RE. Contact support and they will provide you a file to download.

     
  • James Andrews
    James Andrews ✭
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    SSMS is free, just google it and the top result is the download page from MS.


    I could swear I downloaded SSRS for free a couple years ago, but I never really used it and when I changed computers I didn't reinstall it.  Now I don't... Oh wait I found it, if you google where to download SSRS it'll bring up MS's page for it.
  • Theodore VanPatten 2
    Theodore VanPatten 2 ✭
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    Thank you all, good answers and got a license and SSMS.  Now have to work on finding the .rpt files :-)

    Ted
  • John Heizer
    John Heizer ✭
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    If you're trying to take the "canned" reports from RE and turn them into custom reports, I doubt that will work.  They use different ways of communicating with RE.  The canned reports use a special API called from RE that includes report parameters, etc. that are not available to us mere mortals.  Custom Reports in RE use the Export module of RE to create a special Access MDB file that can include multiple tables in a single Export.  That MDB file is then used as the data source for the custom CR .rpt file.
  • Cathleen Mai
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    John is right.

    Sometimes I just export to Crystal to quickly modify the Grouping of a canned report.That works, but you can't save and reuse that modified report as far as I know.

    You will have to create one from scratch.

     

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