If someone e-mails you a Crystal Report and you have access to your database, most Crystal Report viewers will allow you to run the report. cView does this, as well. But, it also allows you to process the report against live new data! Thus, it is a true Crystal Reports viewer that doesn't consign you to working with outdated reports. Or to building information silos.

Once you've installed the cView license, you'll be able to modify many reports, print settings, and display settings. cView allows a user to dynamically change report file locations at run time. This works for data file based reports using FoxPro, Btrieve, or MS-Access.

• Easy to Use. Report design is a specialized task requiring a high level of skill.  But once the report is designed and tested, others may just want to process the report. In contrast, View has been designed to be very easy to use. It is as simple as clicking a toolbar button, or using a menu to do a File/Open on a rpt file.
• File Associations. cView installs as the default viewer of rpt files. So if you send a rpt with saved data to a cView user, they just need to click on the rpt file to open in and view inside cView.
• Database Security. cView stores all the database security information prior to processing the report. You can lock this away from the user, so they never see the database password
• Secure Subreports. If your report includes a subreport that requires a database password, cView can process the report. Some report viewers do not include this feature.
• Desktop shortcut. You can create a shortcut on your desktop to run a report with one click of the mouse. The shortcut just needs to call cView and the report you wish to process.
• One click print and export. With one click of the toolbar, cView will print or export the report without requiring you to preview it first.
• Report Instances. cView can create a instance of your report.  This is a report with saved data that you want to archive or store for later viewing.
• View History, Folder and Instances. You can select a view of all the reports in a folder,  the history of the last ten reports or all the reports in the instances folder.  Then you just select the report and can print, view or export that report.
• Set Print Date. You can set the print date prior to running a report so the reports process at a specific time.  This is useful for running reports as at another historical point in time.