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Crystal Reports Utilities:

cView

cViewMANAGER
cViewSERVER
cViewREMOTE
cViewLOG

cViewBATCH

cViewIMAGE

cViewPICK

cViewSQL

cViewTEXT

cView Search

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Crystal Reports Utilities 

Enable others to view your Crystal Reports with cView

Schedule, manage and view your Crystal Reports and data with cViewSERVER, or cViewMANAGER.  Manage your schedule from a remote workstation using cViewREMOTE. Display information about the report schedule or log using cViewLOG

Manipulate tables in your database with cViewSQL

Insert Dynamic Images into your reports with cViewIMAGE

Display dynamic and formatted text in your report with cViewTEXT

Invoke a Crystal Report from within your script or application with cViewBATCH

Send Email from your script or application with cViewMAIL

Bulk updates of Crystal Reports parameter pick lists with cViewPICK

Stop your report / raise an alert / read your Registry values with  Registry User Function Library

Send emails from your report with our SendMail User Function Library

Write one report but have the headings and labels print in different languages with our International User Function library

Save and retrieve data between reports with our Share User Function Library

Output multiple disk files with our Disk Output User Function library

Conditionally output disk files with our Disk Output User Function library

Export structured data using our Grid User Function Library.

Manipulate Files with our File Management User Function Library

Use a text file and search for values with Text Lookup User Function Library

Output XML at the same time as your report with XML User Function Library

Manage changes:  Find the Crystal reports that are impacted by any changes to your database with cView Search

Future plans: email files, fax and ftp output.

cViewBATCH

cViewBATCH is a command line utility to process Crystal reports.  It can operate from a menu item, desktop shortcut, 3rd party application or from a windows command line.  In the command you can specify a different output destination and format as well as parameter values. Full instructions are available here.

This has be designed so you can create a desktop icon to process a scheduled Crystal report, and includes support of our multirun and report collection features.  You could also use it with any third party program to invoke the cViewBATCH processing.

This new version is now a standalone product.  It will still work with your cViewMANAGER and cViewSERVER report schedules but it can now process a report that is not in the schedule.  New features include support for default printer selection and printer orientation.

FAQs

Cost: $167.97 (US)

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cViewIMAGE

Dynamic Images are one of the most requested features by Crystal Reports users because they do not want to store their images in a database. cViewIMAGE can be used in existing or new reports to display images that are stored in a folder.

You can include this functionality in your existing version (as long as you are using Crystal Reports 8.5 or later).  We have some useful features like including the image dimensions in the record set, and can process an entire folder of images using file names with wild cards.

Why would you need cViewIMAGE?

Rather than storing the image in a database (which is easily inserted into your Crystal report), customers need to store their images in a folder somewhere in their system. Typically, this is because it will be easier to update or to access for other purposes.  Unfortunately, if images are not in the database, it is difficult to insert them into your report

• You do not want to store your image in a database.
• Your database has a field in it that stores the file name of an image - the location or file reference
• Or you have a folder of images you want to process in a report.
• You want to see the image displayed in your report.
• You want something that is easy to use.
• You are using Crystal Reports 8.5 or later
• We can also deal with images of different shapes and sizes

I already have dynamic images functionality in my version of Crystal Reports. Why do I need cViewIMAGE?

Later versions of Crystal Reports (XI and later) do include dynamic images as part of the functionality so the main need will be from customers with v8.5 or v9 or v10 of Crystal Reports.

However, we have found that many customers, even if they have the dynamic images functionality in Crystal Reports also use cViewIMAGE for the extra features it provides e.g. include the image dimensions in the record set or process an entire folder of images using file names with wild cards.

Therefore we offer cViewIMAGE to everyone using Crystal Reports version 8.5 or above.

How do I use cViewIMAGE?

Build your main report from a database table as normal.  One of the database fields has the location of the image. It does not need to be the full folder reference because you can build that up with a formula. Select the location field and build a formula that returns an image file name. Insert a subreport using the cViewIMAGE.SingleImage COM data source.  Link the field or formula from your main report and these images will appear in your report. There are more detailed steps documented.

All the end-users viewing your report with the images will need cViewIMAGE on their machine

Why would you need cViewIMAGE?

• You do not want to store your image in a database.
• Your database has a field in it that stores the file name of an image - the location or file reference
• Or you have a folder of images you want to process in a report.
• You want to see the images displayed in your report.
• You want something that is easy to use.
• You are using Crystal Reports 8.5 or later
• We can also deal with images of different shapes and sizes

There is one new driver in version 5.0 so we now include five drivers to meet your needs

• cViewIMAGE.SingleImage to display a dynamic image. Although this is called Single Image, it displays all the different images.   
• cViewIMAGE.ImageFolder can process all the image files in a folder using wildcards eg c:\Images\PR*.,jpg
• cViewIMAGE.ImageSize includes the height and width of the image (version 4.0)
• cViewIMAGE.WebImage can retrieve an image from a web server (version 4.0)

For frequently asked questions about our products, please click here for our knowledgebase : FAQs

The download page also includes step by step instructions on how to use cViewIMAGE with different versions of Crystal Reports.

Limitations

cViewIMAGE is a COM Data driver so requires Crystal Reports 8.5 or above to operate.  This product works with Crystal Reports v8.5, v9.0, v10.0, v11.0 (XI) and v12 (CR2008). 

Download cViewIMAGE free trial and instructions

Please see our download page for step by step instructions on how to use cViewIMAGE with different versions of Crystal Reports as well as the 30 day free trial.

Cost of cViewIMAGE:

US$149.95 for one designer license plus 3 licenses to view.  Volume and site licenses available

If you want to embed cViewIMAGE into an application you distribute to your customers, we have a Pro license for US$999

You may Buy cViewIMAGE now from our secure e-Commerce merchant site.

cViewTEXT

Build your main report from a database table.  Select a field or build a formula that returns a text file name. Build a subreport using the cViewTEXT.TextFile COM data source.  Link the field or formula from your main report and the contents of the text file will appear in your report.  The driver supports plain text, rich text and HTML.  If you use a rich text or HTML file, you could use the Text Interpretation format to display the fully formatted text.

Why do you need cViewTEXT?

• Your database has a field in it that stores the file name of a text file or you have a folder of files you want to process in a report.
• You want to see the text formatted in your report.
• You want something that is easy to use.
• You are comfortable with subreports and linking to existing parameters.
• You are using Crystal Reports 8.5 or later

Included in the original version is the cViewTEXT.TextFolder driver that can process all the text files in a folder. 

For frequently asked questions about our products, please click here for our knowledgebase : FAQs

You may Buy cViewText now from our secure e-Commerce merchant site for US$149.95

cViewTEXT is a COM Data driver so requires Crystal Reports 8.5 or above to operate. 

cViewLOG

This utility enables you to write reports that display information about your cViewSERVER and cViewMANAGER schedules and log files.  You use cViewLOG as a data source in your Crystal Report to extract information from the log file and the schedule database.

Version 3.0 includes expanded and additional email fields and support for product activation. Latest version June 2010

For frequently asked questions about our products, please click here for our knowledgebase : FAQs

You may Buy cViewLog now from our secure e-Commerce merchant site for US$49.95

cViewPICK

A Crystal Reports utility to rebuild the default pick list values in a folder of reports.

• Select a folder of Crystal Reports
• Examine all the reports in that folder and identify all the parameters used
• Select a parameter and identify the source of data for that pick list.
• Update parameter pick lists to include the latest values in all the reports in the folder where it is used.
• Automate the update using the windows scheduler or our cViewMANAGER report scheduler.

cViewPICK is available in two versions (8.0 and 9.0).  These use different Crystal Reports run time libraries.  If you are using CR9, then you will need version 9.0 of cViewPICK to open the reports, and to save them.  If you are using a prior version, these new reports will no longer be able to be edited.  They can only be edited with Crystal Reports 9.0.

Older versions:  Do not install cViewPICK if you are using Crystal Reports 6.0 or earlier as you will no longer be able to edit your reports.

cViewPICK version 8.0 can save reports as Crystal Reports version 8.0 or 7.0. 

For frequently asked questions about our products, please click here for our knowledgebase : FAQs

You may Buy cViewPick now from our secure e-Commerce merchant site for US$149.95

cView Search

cViewLOG 3.0

XML
User Function Library

cViewSERVER 12.40
cViewREMOTE 12.40

cView 8.22
cView 9.22
cView 10.22
cView 11.22

cViewBATCH 8.35
cViewBATCH 9.35
cViewBATCH 10.35
cViewBATCH 11.35

cViewIMAGE 5.0

Grid
User Function Library

Share
User Function Library

Under Development

cViewDASHBOARD

cViewWEB

cViewFTP

cViewFAX

cViewALERT

cViewFORM

cViewTRIGGER