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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a)When you execute a Crystal report, can you instruct that the report should live in a server location.
Not sure what you mean. You can run reports and save the output where you want it.
Crystal can be run using a scheduler that can save instances of the report.
b)When you execute a Crystal report, can Crystal send as email attachment.
Yes, through third-party applications, CR Server, or your own code reports can be emailed as attachments.
c) Can you schedule Crystal to run in an automated way?
As above through third-party applications, CR Server, or your own code reports can be scheduled.
Crystal Reports by itself is just a reporting tool and has limited capability beyond being able to develop reports.
For others (non-developers) to use a report requires an application capable of viewing the report.
SAP/Crystal provides 2 such applications, CR Server and Business Objects Enterprise. There are also numerous viewers and schedulers available from3rd-party vendors. Ken Hamady has a good list and reviews them each year.
http://kenhamady.com/productlinks/default.html
You can also write your own viewing/scheduling application if you wish using the Visual Studio .Net version of Crystal.
mlmcc
Not sure what you mean. You can run reports and save the output where you want it.
Crystal can be run using a scheduler that can save instances of the report.
b)When you execute a Crystal report, can Crystal send as email attachment.
Yes, through third-party applications, CR Server, or your own code reports can be emailed as attachments.
c) Can you schedule Crystal to run in an automated way?
As above through third-party applications, CR Server, or your own code reports can be scheduled.
Crystal Reports by itself is just a reporting tool and has limited capability beyond being able to develop reports.
For others (non-developers) to use a report requires an application capable of viewing the report.
SAP/Crystal provides 2 such applications, CR Server and Business Objects Enterprise. There are also numerous viewers and schedulers available from3rd-party vendors. Ken Hamady has a good list and reviews them each year.
http://kenhamady.com/productlinks/default.html
You can also write your own viewing/scheduling application if you wish using the Visual Studio .Net version of Crystal.
mlmcc
Hi 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
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
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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