Crystal Report. new with web services

Hi everybody

I want to publish my reports as a web service and then consume them from a web application. However all the reports should be exportable to excel, word, pdf format. I tried to write my web service on my own and couldnt succeed. Web service only returns xml schema and how do i get the final report from web services. Publishing them as a web service individually doesnt work because then i cant use the report engine object model which eliminates my success in exporting

Any ideas? Please helpHope u r using CR 9. There are two ways to publish ur reports in web and u may download sample applications from their web site

Click Here for RAS Samples (http://support.businessobjects.com/communityCS/TechnicalPapers/apps_ras.pdf.asp)

Click Here For RDC Samples (http://support.businessobjects.com/communityCS/FilesAndUpdates/aspxmps9.exe.asp)

Hope this will help!|||I am using crystal reports .net version coming with visual studio .net. I think i am missing an important detail. All of those applications are with report application servers. Do i have to have a report application server?|||Hope you might have

Search their product documentation. u'll get everything