This is a long shot possibility only because I haven't done enough work on this to say you can or you can't do it for sure. Since Notes/Domino provides some tools for generating reports. That is you could create the report to a document using LotusScript or Java. If you are willing to layer one more language/toolkit on the pile there is the Reportlab toolkit for python that provides an API for generating PDFs on the fly. I have played with this somewhat and its on my list of things to dig deeper into now that I have a little extra "free time". Since Reportlab is supposed to be able to render HTML/XML to the PDF you may be able to build the report as an HTML based report for online viewing and then print it by converting to a PDF using Reportlab's API if you need additional formating/template control or even with one of the html to pdf conversion options. Rambling on... Jack. On Friday 07 September 2001 11:45, you wrote: > Crystal has a Java web viewer, true, but it doesn't have as much > functionality as the ActiveX viewer - Crystal has made it VERY obvious > that while they technically can work with other technologies, their > preferred methods are IIS and asp - things not altogether all taht fun to > deal with when working with Domino...Keep in mind that all of this has to > be packagable and sent on to full license clients -so a Java/XML solution > is and ok way to go for just the ASP customers (Application Service > Provider not active server page) but not as good a solution for our full > license clients. > > And no, we're not using Enterprise *yet* and I'm a large reason why simply > because I won't allow the upgrade without full testing and we just don't > have the personnel to do the testing and development....(tech staff still > numbers 4) I do most of the Crystal/Notes administrative work - in > addition to product development...needless to say, there are so many hours > in the day to get everything done *chuckle*. > > BUT - that being the case, I'm still pushing moving us to a more platform > independent view. We *claim* platform independence simply because of the > Notes/Domino backend - but in reality until we get rid of Crystal, we're > pretty much stuck in M$-land at least partially. > > Liz > > -- > Imagination is intelligence having fun... > e-mail: kethry at winternet.com > URL: http://WWW.winternet.com/~kethry/index.html -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com