Crystal 8.5 - Automated or Scheduled Reports

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Logicity has a product, too.



http://www.logicitysuite.com/







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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jose Ortega
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:36 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Crystal 8.5 - Automated or Scheduled Reports





Todd,

I also looked and tried CRD but it was too expensive since I only needed to
automate the sending of 2 reports via email and pdf. I found a super
simple software called Easy view. A company called easy street software
makes it. Their website is
http://www.easystreetsoftware.net/Products/EasyView_Main.php. <http://www.easystreetsoftware.net/Products/EasyView_Main.php.> We¹ve been
using it for several months and it has worked out great. Super cheap too.

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Our Materials Management Director is fairly adept at Crystal Reports and would like to automate the running of several reports. Possibly even get them to run and create separate PDF files or emails at specific points in a report.

She has found a product from ChristianStevens called CRD that seems to do all this but is fairly spendy ($3K Standard, $10K Premium-with bursting).

Anyone out there using this or can recommend something similar that is lower cost? We're frozen on Vantage 6.10 so options via Epicor are not available. I think I could tackle the automated running part with distributed reports and AT Scheduler but it would not be as "user driven" as I would like.

Thanks,
Todd Caughey
Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.






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Todd,
We have used Logicity for the last couple of years and it does the job just fine. Creates pdf files in the folder of your choice and I belive it comes in a free and paid version which offers additional options. We opted for the paid version and it was less than $100.00 (I think)
-Karl




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From: Todd Caughey <caugheyt@...>
To: "vantage@yahoogroups.com" <vantage@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, April 27, 2010 7:29:26 AM
Subject: [Vantage] Crystal 8.5 - Automated or Scheduled Reports

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Our Materials Management Director is fairly adept at Crystal Reports and would like to automate the running of several reports. Possibly even get them to run and create separate PDF files or emails at specific points in a report.

She has found a product from ChristianStevens called CRD that seems to do all this but is fairly spendy ($3K Standard, $10K Premium-with bursting).

Anyone out there using this or can recommend something similar that is lower cost? We're frozen on Vantage 6.10 so options via Epicor are not available. I think I could tackle the automated running part with distributed reports and AT Scheduler but it would not be as "user driven" as I would like.

Thanks,
Todd Caughey
Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.

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Todd,



I've used CviewManager for 2 companies that I've worked for and it's a
great product. Take a look at this website to see what it can do.
http://www.crystalkeen.com/crystalreporttools/schedulers/



If you have any questions regarding this let me know, but as you can see
its fairly inexpensive.



Thanks,

Travis



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Todd Caughey
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:29 AM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] Crystal 8.5 - Automated or Scheduled Reports





Our Materials Management Director is fairly adept at Crystal Reports and
would like to automate the running of several reports. Possibly even get
them to run and create separate PDF files or emails at specific points
in a report.

She has found a product from ChristianStevens called CRD that seems to
do all this but is fairly spendy ($3K Standard, $10K Premium-with
bursting).

Anyone out there using this or can recommend something similar that is
lower cost? We're frozen on Vantage 6.10 so options via Epicor are not
available. I think I could tackle the automated running part with
distributed reports and AT Scheduler but it would not be as "user
driven" as I would like.

Thanks,
Todd Caughey
Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.

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Here's a good source of information on this topic:



http://www.kenhamady.com/news1003.shtml



Regards,
Scott



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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Todd Caughey
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 10:29 AM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] Crystal 8.5 - Automated or Scheduled Reports



Our Materials Management Director is fairly adept at Crystal Reports and
would like to automate the running of several reports. Possibly even get
them to run and create separate PDF files or emails at specific points in a
report.

She has found a product from ChristianStevens called CRD that seems to do
all this but is fairly spendy ($3K Standard, $10K Premium-with bursting).

Anyone out there using this or can recommend something similar that is lower
cost? We're frozen on Vantage 6.10 so options via Epicor are not available.
I think I could tackle the automated running part with distributed reports
and AT Scheduler but it would not be as "user driven" as I would like.

Thanks,
Todd Caughey
Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.







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Todd,

I also looked and tried CRD but it was too expensive since I only needed to
automate the sending of 2 reports via email and pdf. I found a super
simple software called Easy view. A company called easy street software
makes it. Their website is
http://www.easystreetsoftware.net/Products/EasyView_Main.php. We¹ve been
using it for several months and it has worked out great. Super cheap too.


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We have used Logicity (and earlier versions) for a number of years with
very good success. We have a number of reports that run overnight and
during the day both emailing and saving PDFs to file. Never tried to do
any of it at specific points in a report.

--
Jerry Boyle
Controller
Excalibur Machine Co
Member of Esmark Industrial Group
814.382.5696 x122


On 4/27/2010 11:18 AM, Karl Dash wrote:
> Todd,
> We have used Logicity for the last couple of years and it does the job just fine. Creates pdf files in the folder of your choice and I belive it comes in a free and paid version which offers additional options. We opted for the paid version and it was less than $100.00 (I think)
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> From: Todd Caughey<caugheyt@...>
> To: "vantage@yahoogroups.com"<vantage@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tue, April 27, 2010 7:29:26 AM
> Subject: [Vantage] Crystal 8.5 - Automated or Scheduled Reports
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> Our Materials Management Director is fairly adept at Crystal Reports and would like to automate the running of several reports. Possibly even get them to run and create separate PDF files or emails at specific points in a report.
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> She has found a product from ChristianStevens called CRD that seems to do all this but is fairly spendy ($3K Standard, $10K Premium-with bursting).
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> Anyone out there using this or can recommend something similar that is lower cost? We're frozen on Vantage 6.10 so options via Epicor are not available. I think I could tackle the automated running part with distributed reports and AT Scheduler but it would not be as "user driven" as I would like.
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> Thanks,
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> Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.
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