cView Instructions

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Introduction

cView is a Crystal Report viewer. It is part of our cView application family that also includes report schedulers and other great programs for getting more out of your Crystal Reports with less effort.

cView has been developed to provide the following functions:

• Load and process your Crystal Reports
• Display reports with saved data
• You can configure cView as the default viewer for rpt files  
• Change the location of the data source via our table mapping feature

Main Form

Main Form and Menus:

The main cView form is a list of the reports.  If you double click on a report in the list, you will process and view that report.

If a report has saved data, it will view the report with that saved data.  If you have security permission to access the live data, then the refresh button may be used.

The following toolbar buttons are available on the form:

Open: Find a new report to process and view
View: View the currently selected report on the list
Print: Process and Print the selected report
Export: Process and Export the selected report
Instance: Create an Instance of the selected report
Exit: Close cView and exit the program

The Following tasks are available from the File Menu: 

Open 
Select a report file to view/process. 

View, Print, Export and Create Instance
These perform the same action as clicking the toolbar button

Settings  
Selects from a submenu the default viewer settings
This includes:
Database Connection - see database settings help page
Output Settings – see output settings help page
Table Mapping - see Table Mapping help page.