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Why Buy cView Maintenance? |
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Crystal
Reports itself is continually evolving into a more powerful
product to meet ever more demanding needs of end users. Thus, we have an inexpensive annual
maintenance license to make things easy and affordable for everyone.
This license extends the development of cView, but at a fraction of the cost of buying a new license. We value our customers, and our maintenance product is our way of
saying thank you while supporting you as you move forward with
your own goals.
You do not need maintenance just to run cView. That said, there are some compelling reasons to buy Maintenance along with your cView product. If you review the version history below , you can see that cView just keeps getting better.
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Benefits:
- No need to budget for version upgrades.
- Have the newest technology available.
- Save money.
Maintenance:
- Provides you a path to take advantage of the product improvements, without having to go through the hassle of another purchase approval.
- Allows you to upgrade your scheduler for free if you upgrade your version of Crystal Reports.
- Keeps you current.
- Entitles you to priority consideration for feature requests.
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Maintenance Agreements |
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The maintenance agreement has become standard practice in today's software environment. Such agreements have been around since the early days of IBM central computing systems. For desktop and server systems, they became necessary to support continued development of antivirus libraries. Some software vendors disable the product after the first year of use, unless you buy a subscription or have a maintenance agreement. Some software vendors don't do this. We are in that second group. Your business information and reporting system is critical, and so you can continue to operate via your original purchase. But doing so may be a mistake because you miss out on the benefits our maintenance agreement brings you.
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Privacy Assured, Time Respected |
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Some vendors treat their maintenance agreements like a license to bombard their customers with sales pitches. We don't do that. We don't share your information with other parties and we don't pester you with sales calls. We are very respectful of our customers' need to get work done.
If you haven't updated your cView product in a while, look at the version history below to see what you are missing. |
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cView Version History |
3 October, 2006) Version 8.21 / 9.21/ 10.21/11.21
- Database connection form now requires you to confirm your password before it will save it. We have found the major problem users have with out applications is that they have entered the password incorrectly.
- Resizing a form, or copying the settings from another machine with different display settings will no longer cause an error
- cView 10.21 includes the Select Expert on the viewer form. This button was already present in cView 8.20 and earlier.
- cView 10.21/11.21 allows you to design a report using one DB login and then use a different user and login for the running of the report. This was already available in the other versions.
- Set print date on the File/Settings/Output sets the run date for the report
- Product Activation available from Help Menu
- Error when cView.exe has been moved to a new folder location has been fixed. The error occurred when the path to the original instance folder was invalid.
- File/Settings/Instance Settings will save new folder location if you type in the text box
- File/Settings/Instance Settings will create the instance folder if it doesn't exist
- Form resizing behaves better
- Form status message includes additional information
- Display History now includes the date the report was last run
- Can only run one instance of cView on the desktop
- Database Connection form displays the file name in the form caption
(5 August 2005) Version 11.20
(17 March 2005) Version 8.20 / 9.20/ 10.20
- File Association reports automatically close the viewer when the report closes.
- File Association reports can process paths with a space in the name
- Report Alerts can be viewed.
- Improved processing against SQL databases
- Version 11 run time support (4 April)
(10 February 2005) Version 8.19 / 9.19/ 10.19
- Include CR8.5 Service Pack 2 in install files
- Improved processing of reports against OLDEB databases
(22 January 2005) Version 8.18 / 10.18
- Integrates with on line help database
- Link to purchasing site
- Link to
reseller information
- Improved license file processing
- Database connection form - save password problem fixed
- Instance processing creates default folder for instances
- Instance processing file name extended
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Help page on instance setting and processing
(17 May 2004) Version 8.17 / 10.17
- CR10 version created
- CR9 version replaced by CR10 version
- Version History now included in all help files
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