An excellent solution and probablythe most cost effective.
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variable data output from crystal to email.
Hi.
We are using a crystal report (which I wrote 4 years ago to) generate faxbacks for copier meter readings.
The fax we send out has the customer name, machine model(s) and location, etc.and the customer fills it in and sends it back.
We use a fax application that uses a special command font to extract the fax number from each page when sending it to the fax printdriver..
This works fine.
But faxes are becoming less common, and we would like to move to email.
I have rewritten the report to use email addresses, but the question is, how can I pass that information to an SMTp server, such as exchange?
The only solution I have found is 3rd party software such as reform or planetpress, but the cost is 2 or 3 thousand dollars for an application we will use once a month for a few hundred emails.
Is there any other way of doing this?
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In case you are not a "regular" on this forum, the above was tongue-in-cheek -- I'm the developer of Visual CUT & CUT Light... :o)
If I understand your situaion correctly, Visual CUT (with it's bursting functionality) would be a better solution than CUT Light.
You could also do this with CUT (which costs $75 compared to $300 for Visual CUT) but you would end up spending much more time making it do what you want and end up with much less functionality.
Cheers,
- Ido
I am not a "regular" in this area, I usually hang out in the printers and networking areas.
:)
So this would allow me to send a batch of one page emails with the address for each email specified from a field on the page?
Is that what "bursting" means?
Sorry, but I used Crystal for a while a few years ago because our (now discarded) windoze based CRM system used it as a reporting engine.
I am now revisiting it, because we use a report from our Unix CRM via ODBC to produce the faxback, and if I can just modify that report, it will save me some time.
You would place the email address field or formula in the Group Level 1 Header or Footer. You can suppress that field.
You would also need to place the field/formula you are grouping on in the Group Level 1 Header or Footer. Again, you can suppress that field.
Visual CUT would then be able to burst the report (export each Group Level 1 to a separate file) and email that file to the corresponding email address.
Sounds good, would it be possible to set it up to filter both email and fax ?
e,g, if there is no email address, print to the fax driver? (reform and planetpress can both do this, but they use raster mapped text fields)
Or am I expecting a little too much :)
Anyway, I will probably be emailing you for evaluation copies of cut and visual cut.
How do you accept payment if we decide to buy?
We are a UK company.
Yes, it will send emails, haven't got it to send faxes as yet, but my main field engineer has been on holiday, then went down sick after he came back, so I have been out of the office most of the last 3 weeks.
I think we will probably go for a different solution which works direct from our UniVerse database (Crystal can't access it directly, we extract the tables to a temporary access database), as it is all getting too complex to support.
Thankyou for your help.
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by: frodomanPosted on 2006-10-02 at 13:37:09ID: 17646706
Try Visual Cut or Cut_Light ($50) which you can get here: http://www.milletsoftware.
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