cViewMANAGER
(New version March 2007)
cViewMANAGER is our automatic manager and
scheduler for Crystal Reports. It runs as an application on the
Windows desktop.
(Please see
cViewSERVER if you are looking for a scheduler that runs as a
Windows service)
This application
enables you to automate the production of your Crystal Reports. It can
send your report as an email attachment, print on any system printer
or save in a variety of formats to a disk file. A trial version can be downloaded from
here.
Other features include
- Email client and server
independent. cViewMANAGER will save your report and send
later if the server is not available
- HTML output can be formatted and
sent with images in the body of an email message rather than as
attachments.
- Viewing reports that require secure access (user ID and
password). This includes secure subreports.
- Export to PDF, Paginated Text, and
HTML
- Report Scheduling
for Working days
- Date parameters automatically loaded
with "Today", "Last Week", etc.
- Multi-Run reports - rerun a report and
change a parameter and the destination (email address, disk file,
etc.)
- List management -
maintain an external list of values and destinations for a group
of scheduled reports to use
- Current Status available via your
web browser
- Report Collections to schedule
several reports as one item
- Click
here for a 1 page brochure pdf
When cViewMANAGER is installed,
the Crystal Reports version 10 run time files are included. This
will enable you to schedule reports written in version 10 or any
earlier version.
Older Operating
systems: If you have an older operating system (prior to Windows
2000) and can only run
version 8.5 or earlier Crystal Reports, you can use our version 8.5 of
cViewMANAGER which includes version 8.5 Crystal reports run time files.
The
trial version
limits the schedule to two reports. The full functionality comes
in the version you
purchase.
FAQs
Cost: US$599.97 for one
license. Volume prices are available.
With the release of version 8.35, 9.35, 10.35
and 11.35,
we have some more improvements including:
- Improved schedule navigation
- Product activation available after
trial version has expired
- Problem with date stamp names not
working is now fixed
- Improved collection editing
cViewMANAGER- Key Features
Supports your version of Crystal
Reports
cViewMANAGER is available in 4
versions. The versions have the same features, but install with
different versions of the Crystal Reports run time. Full installs
are available for Crystal Reports 8.5, 10.0 and 11.0.
Upgrades also are available for version 9.0
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.
Business Calendar
This feature enables you to run a report on business days (Monday-Friday
or Monday-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.
Improved Management
You can view more information in the report schedule and sort by next
run date, previous run date, report title, and location. The log
file can be filtered and sorted and you can now view the SMTP log from
within cViewMANAGER
Improved Help
The cViewMANAGER help files now include a list of the key features
and a FAQ page.
Multirun Status
A status box is displayed while the multirun is processing to indicate
which parameter value and output destination is currently being
processed.
SMTP Spooling
If the SMTP server is busy or not available, email reports are saved in
a folder and are sent later when the server becomes available. Run
scheduled reports on your laptop and they are sent when it reconnects to
the network.
In-Body Messages
cViewMANAGER can export HTML reports and the HTML formatting and images
are included in the email message itself rather than as attached
files. This feature also applies to output formatted as Text and
CSV.
Mail Client and Server Independent
cViewMANAGER now uses SMTP to build and send email messages direct to you
mail server. You do not need to have specific versions of Outlook or
use MAPI specific email clients. This means cViewMANAGER can work
with MS-Exchange, GroupWise, Lotus Notes or any other SMTP compliant mail
system. This also means that cViewMANGER will operate in
environments that have installed Outlook 2002 or the Outlook Security
patch that interrupts 3rd party programs from sending email. We no
longer send email via Outlook. cViewMANAGER also supports mail servers
that require SMTP authentication.
HTML email reports
HTML reports will email the entire report, not just the first html page,
and we can embed the HTML report and images into the body of the email
message rather than sending attachments. (Crystal Reports 9.0 export will
only send you the first HTML page, and exclude any attached images or
subsequent pages)
Printer Control
cViewMANAGER will automatically print your reports and you can control the
number of copies and the page orientation.
Action on "No Data in report"
cViewMANAGER can be used for exception reporting. If a report
selects no data you can control what is to happen. Choices include
sending an empty report, not sending any message, sending a short email
warning either to the recipient list, or the schedule administrator.
Improved Schedule management
You can now sort the schedule by any of the columns in the schedule, and
we have a global find and replace command that you can use to change all
the entries in the schedule. This applies to File names, output
destinations, and email addresses.
Improved Parameters
We now support multi value parameters. Range parameters are planned
for a future release.
Improved Multirun
The MultiRun feature is one of the powerful features in
cViewMANAGER. This enables you process a report repeatedly, change
the value of a parameter for each run and send the results of each run to
a different destination. cViewMANAGER 8.12 supports the ability to modify
multiple parameters for each multirun.
Report Collections
You can group together several reports and schedule them as one item.
Email processing
We have rewritten the email processing to improve the response rate and
to handle a wider range of mail server performance levels. Notify
message no longer include the Cc and BCC addresses. Error message
processing has been improved. Multiple email addresses can now be
separated by semi colons.
New Export formats include Tab
Separated Text and Values, and XML.
History of development
A full list of all the changes and a version history is included in the
help files.
Improved DB processing
We have modified the db access and password process to handle a wider
range of database connections.
Web Status Report
If your cViewMANAGER server is also running a web service then you can
view the current status and some log information from a web browser on a
remote machine. The status also includes which report is currently
processing.
Improved Exports to Paginated Text
We have added an export to Paginated Text, and version 8.20 will export
reports to CR7 format.
Improved Date Stamps
We have added a new option for %s to include the file name in seconds in
the destination file name.
FAQs
Cost: US$599.97 for one
license. Volume prices are available.
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