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cViewIMAGE is a COM data driver that can reference an image file in a field and return the embedded image to use in your report.

This is a very handy utility--we all know a picture is worth a thousand words. And that's why cViewIMAGE is one of our most popular products. Why not add that power to your Crystal Reports? The better your reports look, the better you look!

A free trial version is available for evaluation on our download page. Please bookmark this page, download the free version, and test-drive this outstanding product.

 

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cViewIMAGE allows a developer to design a report that calls images for dynamic inclusion in those reports. To see those images, the clients must also have cViewIMAGE installed.

cViewIMAGE enables you to include images in your Crystal report even if they are not stored in a database. Hold the reference to the image e.g. c:\Product Images in your database, instead of the image, and cViewIMAGE will retrieve them from the folder for your Crystal report.

  • cViewIMAGE uses a COM data driver to create a recordset you can use in your Crystal Report to include a dynamic image in your report.

  • cViewIMAGE includes a SingleIMAGE driver that takes an image file name and presents it in a recordset to use in your report. This will work well inside a subreport. There is also an ImageFolder driver that will return all the pictures from a folder.
  • cViewIMAGE requires Crystal Reports 8.5 or higher to process the recordset. Yes, it works with CR8.5, 9.0, 10.0, and XI.

You do not need the image to be stored in your database. Your database simply holds the file path to the image, not the image itself.

The advantages are that:

  • Your database is very much smaller than if it were storing images.
  • It's easier to manage your images. Adding, changing and deleting images is simpler if they are stored in a folder rather than held in a database.

    How would you use cViewIMAGE to do it? To put your image of say, your product into your Crystal report, you would create a new connection using cViewIMAGE as well as your normal Product database/file connection. Then write a formula to access the file path reference of the image (e.g. c:\Product Images) from your Product database to point cViewIMAGE to the folder/s where your images are filed. Then place the image in your report along with any other information from your Product database.

    Why dynamically include an image in a report? Images are compelling and give a report great eye appeal. You can use them to convey information in ways that text alone cannot. You probably already guessed we would say it: A picture's worth 1,000 words.

    Why use cViewIMAGE to do it? cViewIMAGE offers functionality not available by other means (see the cViewIMAGE v. Crystal XI tab.

    cViewIMAGE is one of our best-selling products. Once you start using it, you'll understand why.

    Vs. XI

    While XI does support dynamic images using its own mechanism, it still supports cViewIMAGE. The ImageFolder driver in cViewIMAGE brings in all the pictures from a folder--something XI can't do. cViewIMAGE does have functionality which is still not available in Crystal in this form and as far as we are aware, is not planned to be in later versions of Crystal.

     

    So there are still benefits in using cViewIMAGE even if you have Crystal XI or Crystal 2008, depending on what you are trying to do.

    By using different arguments, you can pick up different cViewIMAGE COM drivers which provide different functionality.

    Functionality available only in cViewIMAGE as far as we are aware:

    • cViewIMAGE.ImageFolder enabling you to import an entire folder of images, providing multiple images which can be based on a wild card.
    • cViewIMAGE.ImageSize enabling you to specify height and width of your image (from cViewIMAGE version 4)
    • cViewIMAGE.ODBCImage enabling you to include a set of fields as well as the embedded image (from cViewIMAGE version 5)

    The functionality now available in Crystal XI that is similar to other cViewIMAGE COM drivers: cViewIMAGE.WebImage (from cViewIMAGE version 4) and cViewIMAGE.SingleImage (often used).

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