cViewMANAGER Crystal Reports Tool Key Features

Web Status
If your cViewMANAGER machine is running a web service, it can display the current cViewMANAGER schedule status.

Bulk Printing
You can send one report to several printers.  Create a List of the printers and use the List file as the destination of your report.

Dynamic Dates
You specify a dynamic date calendar and this can be used to load a date parameter in the report schedule. An example would be a scheduled report that always uses the current accounting period start and end dates in the report.  Calendar support includes calendar months, 4 week periods and 4-4-5 week accounting.

Run as a Process
cViewMANAGER runs as a process on your desktop.  There are no complicated services to configure to schedule your reports. If you need a version that runs as a service, click here.

Flexible Scheduling
Reports can be run on a wide range of processing Schedules.   You can also schedule BAT and EXE programs, as well as cViewGLOBAL tasks.

Business Calendar
This feature enables you to run a report on business days (Monday-Friday or Mondary-Saturday) and business hourly (E.g. every 45 minutes between 9am and 4pm).  You can also specify a list of public holidays which do not get processed.

Schedule Management
Your view of the schedule can be sorted by any of the columns.  You can use a global find and replace to change a report location or destination. 

Email Independence
cViewMANAGER does not require a specific Email client or server.  We use SMTP to send messages directly to the mail server.

SMTP Spooling
If the Email server is busy or not available, cViewMANAGER will save the report messages and send when the server is ready.

Database Security
cViewMANAGER stores all the database access security so that the reports can run against secure databases.  cViewMANAGER can also process reports that have subreports that need a different database, userid and password.

Date Stamping
You can specify a date or time stamp in the output file name.  Use %d, %t or %h in the disk file name and the file name will include the date, time or hour the report was processed.

PDF Export
cViewMANAGER can email your reports as a PDF file. We include the CR8.5 or CR9 run time files as part of the install, and can even export PDF from earlier versions of Crystal Reports.

HTML Messages
cViewMANAGER can email a report as HTML in the body of a message. No messy attachments to open.

Exception Reports
You can control what cViewMANAGER does if no records are retrieved by the report.  This can include sending an empty report, not sending anything, or sending a error message  to someone.

MultiRun
Use  a report that has a parameter, and you can run it repeatedly and send the output to different destinations. The Multirun control file is a text file and can be created another crystal report.  A new feature in version 8.17 and 9.17 is a progress indicator to show which value the multirun is currently processing.

Lists
You can create lists of values, printers, dates and date/times.  These can be used in the schedule for parameter values, email addresses, bulk printing of reports or for a custom schedule.  A list is also used if you want to avoid running reports on a public holiday.

Printer Control
cViewMANAGER enables you control the number of copies printed and the page orientation.

cViewGLOBAL Support
cViewGLOBAL is our set of utilities that include SQL scripts, File updating, ODBC table copies and FTP transfers. cViewGLOBAL tasks can be scheduled in cViewMANAGER.

Command Line Processing
cViewBATCH is available as an upgrade to process reports via a command line interface.  This means you can set up cViewMANAGER items and invoke them from an external program such as a desktop icon, or 3rd party program.