This version of
Crystal Reports for Eclipse has
enhanced Eclipse integration, more SDK functionality, and improved viewers.
Eclipse integration enhancements
Viewer enhancements
Crystal Reports for
Eclipse provides an enhanced DHTML viewer for web-based applications.
The
DHTML viewer also supports rendering the new
Crystal Reports 2008
features, such as
“Interactive Sorting”,
“Flash integration”,
“Calculated Crosstab Members”,
“Optional Parameters”,
“Interactive Parameters”, and the
Parameter Panel.
Other enhancements
The SDK now provides access to most report
objects that are available in the Crystal Reports designer.
Excel (data only) export format and an
improved PDF export format are available.
Improved support for Plain Old Java Objects
(POJO) data sources and for building reports based on custom SQL (using Eclipse
SQL files) is available.
Dynamic image location: you can define the
location of a dynamic image using a conditional formula.