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Crystal Reports Tools: Improve Performance While Saving Time and Money |
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cView
is a powerful Crystal Reports viewer that allows you to work
with reports in ways that other viewers do not. cView saves money and improves
performance.
If someone e-mails you a Crystal Report and you have access to your database, most 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 Thus, it is a true viewer that doesn't consign you to working with outdated reports. | ||||||||||
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cView enables your users to view your Crystal Reports, even if they don't have a copy of Crystal Reports! cView supports viewing reports in the latest version of Crystal Reports. You select a rpt file and cView processes it. A free version is available for evaluation on our download page. Please test-drive this outstanding Crystal Reports viewer. Once you've installed the cView license, you'll be able to modify many reports, print settings and display settings.The latest version of cView allows a user to dynamically change a report file locations at run time. No, we're not joking. It will really do that. This works for data file based report using FoxPro, Btrieve, or MS-Access.
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Whether to deliver Crystal Reports from the Web or from the Windows desktop can be a confusing decision--or appear that way. Some people have a hard time understanding how it really makes any difference. As our outstanding cView product is a Windows-based viewer, we feel compelled to explain. You can export your report manually--or with a scheduler like cViewMANAGER or cViewSERVER--to HTML or PDF. You can save these documents on your Web server. However, users viewing these reports are viewing static Web pages. If you store (save or copy to) your reports (*.rpt files) on a Web server, those reports appear as documents just like other HTML pages (or they appear as PDF documents). Reports can be saved with or without the data. You can download these rpt files to your local workstation, but can view them only if you have a Crystal Reports viewer installed on your machine. With Windows report delivery, a report saved without data is perfectly fine for cView users. But in a Web interface, a report without data is of no use to cView users. They can load the report, but because they cannot connect to the database, they cannot process any results. Interactive Web reports require a Web delivery mechanism. Web delivered reports are available using Crystal Enterprise or a third party tool like Recrystallize. If the reports have saved data, there is a free viewer available from the Website the CR install sets up. The big catch is it works only with reports with saved data. This is problematic. A justification for using CR to begin with is avoiding islands of information. But when you save data with a report, you create an island of information. That means your report is a snapshot of the past, not a live report with current information. And it can easily differ from a report that another person is viewing, though both users may think they are looking at the same report. The free viewer is useful for viewing archive reports with saved data. And that free viewer thus gets you back into the island of information problem. If you want a Web-based system, you should consider Recrystallize. If that won't meet your needs, then you should talk to Crystal Decisions about a more complex solution--and be prepared to spend some money. cView offer Windows report delivery for people on the local network. Web users have a totally different set of operational requirements, restrictions, and security requirements. These two approaches are fundamentally different. If you are looking for a Web-based solution, cView is not it. |