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Crystal Tools > Free Trials > Command-line Utility for Crystal Reports: cViewBATCH


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Summary

cViewBatch is a command-line utility that allows you to process a report from a desktop icon, and it also serves as a command line interface for cViewMANAGER and cViewSERVER Crystal Reports schedulers. Free 30-day trial.

cViewBATCH is compatible with Crystal Reports XI and can process all prior versions of Crystal Reports.

Because you can run a scheduled report from the command line, you can create a desktop icon that runs a scheduled report, or can invoke a report from the command line. You can also schedule a cViewBATCH task using the windows setting output options and parameters in the command line. It also works with cViewMANAGER and cViewSERVER.

Command Line

Command Line Operation
  • cViewBATCH has expanded from its add-on functionality to our cViewMANAGER and cViewSERVER Crystal Report schedulers; it can process any Crystal Report. It will write to a default log file of cViewBATCH.log although this can be changed if required.
  • You can use it to run a specific report file with a command line of

 cViewBATCH.EXE report=c:\My reports\sample\this.rpt

  • Other command line options are available to set output destination and formats.  If the command line becomes complex, you can create a text file with each command on a separate line and invoke the file with

 cViewBATCH.EXE @mycommands.txt

  • If no drive or path is specified, cViewBATCH will look for the command file in the cViewBATCH program folder. This will change the default log file to the commandfile.log.

Command Line Summary

A full list of the command line options are as follows. The first entry must be the report or "scheduleid" value. The other parameters can be entered in any order.

  • @filename
  • {?parameter}=value
  • comment=a comment for the log file
  • disk=output file name
  • email=address to send to
  • format=output format
  • log=log file name
  • mailsever=email server name
  • mailfrom=senders email address
  • printer=printer name
  • report>=report file name
  • scheduleid=id in the schedule

Integration

cViewBATCH provides cViewMANAGER and cViewSERVER report integration
  • Every report and collection in the cViewMANAGER and cViewSERVER schedule has a unique Schedule ID to identify it. Use that Report ID in the cViewBATCH command line to identify the report to process.
  • The command line to run item 27 from the schedule will look like...

cViewBATCH.EXE 27
or
cViewBATCH.EXE scheduleid=27

  • If cViewMANAGER and cViewSERVER are both installed on the same machine, cViewBATCH will use the cViewSERVER schedule database by default.
  • It looks for the cViewSERVER database first, then the cViewMANAGER database.
  • It does not require a schedule database to run, but you must be running one of these report schedulers to use the scheduleid option.

Output

Output Control

The following keywords can also be entered in a cViewBATCH command line.

  • printer=printername
    Will redirect the output to the printer name you have specified.
  • email=name@domain.com
    Will redirect the output to an email address.  You may invoke a list file with angle brackets or enter multiple addresses separated by semi colons (;)
  • disk=c:\this folder\myuname.pdf
    Will direct the report output to a disk file
  • format=Acrobat File
    Will control the report output format.  This is only relevent if you have also specified a email or disk destination.  The format must also be a valid format from the following list:
    • Crystal Report
    • Excel Worksheet
    • Rich Text
    • CSV File
    • HTML Document
    • DHTML Document
    • Acrobat File
    • MS Word Doc
    • Text File

The printer name, email address, disk file and format may contain spaces, and are not case sensitive.

Log File Processing

  • cViewBATCH will create a log file of the task as it processes.  By default it will be in cViewBATCH.log or if you are using a command file, that file name with a .log extension.  You can select a specific output file name with

log=c:\myfolder\logs\this.log

  • You can also add description and comment information into the log file with

comment=a comment to add into the log file

  • cViewBATCH will also create a log entry to be processed in the cViewMANAGER and cViewSERVER log file. This remote log entry will be processed by the schedule.
SMTP Processing

If you are running cViewBATCH without our report scheduler, and you want to email reports you will need to specify the SMTP server and sender email address.  These are specified with.

mailsever=email server name
mailfrom=senders email address

Parameter Processing

  • Parameter values can be loaded into the report with the format:

{?parameter}=value

  • You cannot currently enter multiple values or range parameters.

Installation

  • cViewBATCH is supplied as complete setup script. There are separate versions for Crystal Reports version 8, 9, and 10. You require a license file to remove the trial period limitation.
  • Do not install in the cViewMANAGER or cViewSERVER program folders as the license files are different for each product.
  • It may be installed with an existing cViewMANAGER or cViewSERVER installation.  If both report schedulers are installed, cViewBATCH will use the cViewSERVER for its report schedule database.

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Average Customer Review: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 11 Reviews
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5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 Product is GREAT - Support is GREAT!, 1.17.2012
Reviewer: Jim Ward (Lexington, SC)

I have used cViewBatch since 2006. I recently had a report server crash and could not retrieve the backup files from my IT support consultant. My reports would not run, and my customers were becoming VERY impatient. I contacted Mark, he responded and got me setup again within 30 minutes. Incredible support! The product is great and the support through CrystalKeen is even greater!

 

4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 Very useful and affordable utility, 11.24.2011
Reviewer: Doug Gillett (Moose Jaw, SK)

My organization uses cViewBATCH to generate daily, weekly, and monthly reports. Reports can be generated from a .bat file, or a command prompt, or in our case a Visual Basic program runs cViewBATCH with the Shell command. Parameters can be passed to the reports and report output can be sent to printers, emailed, or saved as disk files. The only limitation I've encountered is that only one instance of cViewBATCH can be running at a time, so you have to be careful that one report is complete and allow a couple of extra seconds for the cViewBATCH process to terminate before you submit another report. Considering how low the price is, my organization has gotten tremendous value from this product.

 

5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 I love this product, 4.1.2011
Reviewer: Jerry Shaver (Cupertino, CA)

This is really a wonderful little gem!

 

5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 cViewBatch a Big Help, 2.28.2011
Reviewer: Jerry Shaver (Cupertino, CA)

I found this nifty little product while contemplating building a .NET application to run a Crystal Report, print it as a pdf file, and then email it to a user. This would have taken me a week to discover how to do and code and test etc. Fortunately, one can purchase this tool for a song and can then employ it in any number of ways. For the current project, I am calling cViewBATCH from a SQL Stored procedure which users invoke from our intranet web page when they need a report. (cViewBATCH runs the report and emails it to the user!) However, I will soon use it to email invoices and payment reminders nightly to customers via another SQL routine soon to be written. In the future I will be calling cViewBATCH from .NET applications I write in C#. I'll also probably accomplish this one day soon from a simple BAT file that is called by the windows job scheduler. Since this is a nice tight little application callable from most anything that can call an exe at the DOS shell level, it is very handy and useful. I purchased it within a couple of days of downloading the free trial.

 

5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 This is a great little product!, 2.24.2011
Reviewer: Jerry Shaver (Cupertino, CA)

Very useful.

 

4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 Works well, would like more functionality, 4.16.2010
Reviewer: Phil Maliskowski (Nashville, TN)

The program does what we bought it for, but we were hoping to do more with it. There's no user guide that walks you through various scenarios of application, and we'd hoped to have such a guide to provide process improvement ideas for us.

 

4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 Useful, though somewhat limiting, 12.10.2009
Reviewer: Mike O'Hara (Oklahoma City, OK)

For several admin functions, this is a really great tool. We tried to use it also for some user functions but found that too limiting.

 

5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 Exceptional versatility, 10.13.2009
Reviewer: Eric Kaiser (New York, NY)

We're using this command line utility to automate some things in our reporting system and are finding new uses for it all the time. It's very versatile.

 

4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 Not bad, 6.19.2009
Reviewer: Nora Effington (Atlanta, GA)

We can do several useful functions with this utility.

 

4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 Useful tool, 10.12.2008
Reviewer: Bob Murphy (Dallas, TX)

We needed a command line utility, for some admin functions. This does exactly what we want. We had a support issue, and it took a couple of days to sort that out.

 

5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 Easy to use command line tool, 8.9.2008
Reviewer: Bob Hernandez (San Diego, CA)

From an admin viewpoint, simple tools are usually better. We just wanted a simple command line tool for some tasks we do outside the GUI environment. We tried a couple of other products and were disappointed. We tried this one found it to be exactly what we needed.

 

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