Publishing to the Web Desktop

Publishing content into Crystal Enterprise refers to taking content in the form of reports or other object types such as spreadsheets and saving them to a specific folder within Crystal Enterprise. The reason it is called publishing content is that once saved, any user with the appropriate authority can then view the content.

There are three ways to publish content into Crystal Enterprise:

  • Push method

  • Pull method

  • Crystal Publishing Wizard

Push Method

The Push method uses the File Save As method available with Crystal Reports and Crystal Analysis Professional. This is illustrated in Figure 23.21.

Figure 23.21. Using File, Save As, the user can select the Enterprise icon. The report is then pushed from the desktop to ...

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