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Using Crystal on command line

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Topic: Using Crystal on command line
Posted By: howrob
Subject: Using Crystal on command line
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2012 at 2:08am
Would someone be able to help me with running a crystal report from a command line, so that i can generate a report and export to a pdf file.  My goal is to use this to schedule the report to be automatically generated daily.
 
I can get Crystal to open with the report, but I know there are parameters involved that will generate the desired format and save to a file.
 
thanks
 
Howard
 


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Posted By: rkrowland
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2012 at 2:52am
http://www.crystaldesk.com/CrystalCommand.htm - http://www.crystaldesk.com/CrystalCommand.htm
 
You should be able to find what you need there.
 
Regards,
Ryan.

Posted By: howrob
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2012 at 2:57am
Thanks Ryan, but the parameters are not obvious to me and I just need a simple explanation of some of the parameters for the command line.

Posted By: rkrowland
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2012 at 3:02am
After more reading it turns out this functionality isn't built into Crystal, a thrid party application (like the one in my original link) is needed to do this.
 
Regards.

Posted By: DBlank
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2012 at 4:05am
here is another place to see 3rd party tools with a comparisons, reviews, functionality lists and costs
 
http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html - http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html
 
 


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