Crystal Reports export to HTML

Question

I use CrystalReports 13 (13.0.2000.0) in an ASP.NET 4.0 application.
I need to export report in HTML because i want a static report page, without reporviewer that allows user interaction.

If i try the following code:

 Source1.ReportDocument.ExportToHttpResponse(  
   CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportFormatType.HTML32   /*or HTML40*/
   , this.Response  , false, "report");

Application generates an error (Detail: Export in HTTP response in HTML format is not supported.)

If i try ReportExporter, HTML32 and HTML40 are not available ase ExportFormat.

Can someone help?

Solution 1

Report can be viewed in HTML as

    MemoryStream oStream; // using System.IO
    oStream = (MemoryStream)
    rd.ExportToStream(
    CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportFormatType.HTML40);
    Response.Clear();
    Response.Buffer = true;
    Response.ContentType = "text/html";
    Response.BinaryWrite(oStream.ToArray());
    Response.End();

But the format may suffer.

Reference: How to Export Crystal Report in ASP.NET

Solution 2

Because you marked it up I thought I'd upgrade it to an answer for closure and the rep:

you could save the html document to disk and then use a redirect to that as a workaround but I can't find any other way of doing it. if you are going to do it that way make sure you add uniqueness to the fime name (I find datetime is a useful string) to support concurrency,

MD

Comments

[Emanuele Greco]

No, PDF doesn't help: actually I use PDF but IE9 x64 hasn't got PDF plugin, so some user see browser asking to download a file instead of viewing it in the browser.

[MD-Tech]

you could save the html document to disk and then use a redirect to that as a workaround but I can't find any other way of doing it,

[MD-Tech]

if you are going to do it that way make sure you add uniqueness to the fime name (I find datetime is a useful string) to support concurrency