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Crystal Reports - question 2 - from a new user with a Microsoft Office/vba background
Hi EE,
At work, I use Microsoft Access, Excel, and Word with VBA as a report writer/analyst.
The institution is moving to another report writer tool (not Crystal Reports - the one they bought will be be nameless for now... :-) )
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Have watched some Crystal reports tutorials on You tube.
Questions, please:
a)When you execute a Crystal report, can you instruct that the report should live in a server location.
b)When you execute a Crystal report, can Crystal send as email attachment.
c) Can you schedule Crystal to run in an automated way?
thx, sandra
At work, I use Microsoft Access, Excel, and Word with VBA as a report writer/analyst.
The institution is moving to another report writer tool (not Crystal Reports - the one they bought will be be nameless for now... :-) )
==
Have watched some Crystal reports tutorials on You tube.
Questions, please:
a)When you execute a Crystal report, can you instruct that the report should live in a server location.
b)When you execute a Crystal report, can Crystal send as email attachment.
c) Can you schedule Crystal to run in an automated way?
thx, sandra
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mytfein
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As I stated Crystal by itself cannot do much. You need an application to do the scheduling, viewing, exporting etc.
You can view and export when you design a report but I wouldn't want to have to run a report when a user wants to see data.
Crystal will export to PDF and to Excel. The newest versions will do both .xls and .xlsx
Some of the viewers/schedulers will allow you to have a dynamically named file.
mlmcc
You can view and export when you design a report but I wouldn't want to have to run a report when a user wants to see data.
Crystal will export to PDF and to Excel. The newest versions will do both .xls and .xlsx
Some of the viewers/schedulers will allow you to have a dynamically named file.
mlmcc
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thx so much mimcc!
On the screen where you specify where you want the report to live, can you make the file:
a) a .pdf file
b) I am guessing you can say xls/xlsx here, too?
c) can you name the file dynamically using parameters that user specified
I will post a new question requesting a screen shot for:
a) where you specify the above items
b) where you specify parameters...
I want to download a trial version of CR for 30 days, so I want to prepare before I dowload....
tx,
sandra