Dynamically set Crystal Report still asks for db login

Question

I am trying to deploy Crystal Reports in my MVC application. To get full use of the Crystal Report Viewer, I have to use a webform, which

Answer 1

Have a look at my Blog post here on this.

There are a couple of actions required, but the main one is to create a new TableLogOnInfo instance, and then apply is using ApplyLogOnInfo.

Answer 2

You have to provide credentials for each datasouce in the report.

Ideally, the report will have a single datasource. If this is not possible, you need to provide credentials for each, or data for each.

Something like this works well if you want to provide the data:

rd.Database.Tables[0].SetDataSource(testDt);
rd.Database.Tables[1].SetDataSource(micssys);

Otherwise, something like this will allow the report to access the db directly for each datasource:

rd.SetDatabaseLogon("username","password}");