Crystal Reports
Solutions: cViewTEXT vs. Problems
If you have any of the problems shown
below,
you need the
cViewTEXT Crystal Reports
Dynamic Text Includer.
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If your problem is… |
You need cViewTEXT because... |
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You manually extract and paste text from your database into your
Crystal Reports. One problem with this is the text changes all the
time, forcing you to update the report frequently. 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 text dynamically.
cViewTEXT will give you the
power to do this. |
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Various report recipients have submitted requests along the lines of
including specific (and ever-changing) text in your reports. But you've tried that and
invariably reports go out with text that is out of date or text that
doesn't match the conditional statements in the report. To keep
things simple, you've made it a policy that text that is in any
way time-sensitive just doesn't go in reports. |
You need to include text dynamically.
cViewTEXT will give you the
power to do this. |
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You have contacted BO about including dynamic text 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
cViewTEXT
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
cViewTEXT
only if you are running Crystal 8.5 or higher. |
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You need to include text dynamically. The Crystal Reports tool for this doesn't
quite do what you want. |
cViewTEXT
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 text. But your text
areas
are different sizes and your reports look like a drunk designed them
while half-tanked, any time you include text dynamically. |
With
cViewTEXT,
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 items for each data
record. Dynamic Text in CR XI selects only a single item. |
With
cViewTEXT,
having multiple items for each data record is not the show-stopper
it is for CR XI. With
cViewTEXT, the TextFolder driver can select
the required text 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 text file doesn't exist. The results are not
pretty. |
With
cViewTEXT,
the outcome is much better.
cViewTEXT
has a NULL value if the filename doesn't exist. |
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