Crystal Reports
Solutions: cViewIMAGE vs. Problems
If you have any of the problems shown
below,
you need the
cViewIMAGE Crystal Reports
Image Includer.
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If your problem is… |
You need cViewIMAGE because... |
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You manually extract and paste images from your database into your
Crystal Reports. One problem with this is the images change over
time, forcing you to update the report. But there's no easy way to
track when the changes occur and when to make the corresponding
changes to the report. |
You need to include images dynamically.
cViewIMAGE will give you the
power to do this. |
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Various report recipients have submitted requests along the lines of
including images in your reports. But you've tried that and
invariably reports go out with images that are out of date or images
that don't match the conditional statements in the report. To keep
things simple, you've made it a policy that images that are in any
way time-sensitive just don't go in reports. |
You need to include images dynamically.
cViewIMAGE will give you the
power to do this. |
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You have contacted BO about including images in your Crystal Report,
because your version of CR doesn't allow this. They came back with a
proposal for you to upgrade your version of CR. But your accounting
department says there's no funding for that. |
You need to generate that report without incurring the cost of an
upgrade just for that one feature. But use
cViewIMAGE
only if you are running Crystal 8.5 or higher. |
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Same scenario as above, but the issue isn't funding. The issue is
application integration. The accounting software people don't yet
support the new version. Integrating CR into an accounting app
requires some code, and developers are reluctant to make
version-specific changes each time a new CR version comes out. |
Same solution as above. You need to generate that report without an
upgrade that won't "play nice" with your other software. But use
cViewIMAGE
only if you are running Crystal 8.5 or higher. |
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You need to include images dynamically. The Crystal Reports tool for this doesn't
quite do what you want. |
cViewIMAGE
gives you an expanded "tool chest" of options for including images--in
ways more
in line with your needs. |
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You have CR XI, and it does include dynamic images. But your images
are different sizes and your reports look like a drunk designed them
while half-tanked, any time you include images. |
With
cViewIMAGE,
the ImageSize driver includes the image height and
width as additional fields. So you can set up templates for
different aspect ratios and select them based on those fields. |
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You have CR XI, but you also have multiple images for each data
record. Dynamic Images in CR XI selects only a single image. |
With
cViewIMAGE,
having multiple images for each data record is not the show-stopper
it is for CR XI. With
cViewIMAGE, the ImageFolder driver can select
the required images based on a file name wild card. |
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You have CR XI, but you also have "holes" in the data. That is, for
some records, the image file doesn't exist. The results are not
pretty. |
With
cViewIMAGE,
the outcome is much better.
cViewIMAGE
has a NULL value if the filename doesn't exist. |
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