Thanks Adams,
I will try your tool after I find out about the ODBC of Crystal
report. As of now, I don't see it anywhere. Could you show me how
and what to add into the ODBC Admin? Thanks.
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I will try your tool after I find out about the ODBC of Crystal
report. As of now, I don't see it anywhere. Could you show me how
and what to add into the ODBC Admin? Thanks.
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--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, Adam Ellis <AELinuxGuy@n...> wrote:
> You might want to give my scheduler tool a shot. I think a couple
of
> people on the list here are using it with good luck. I have been
> sitting on a new release of the utility hoping to achieve a few more
> design goals and declare a stable version, but everybody has been
> waiting long enough. To begin with, here is a short description of
the
> utility for those unfamiliar with it:
>
> The SaberLogic RPT Tool (formerly called RPT Scheduler) is a free
> utility to automate the delivery of Crystal Reports to e-mail,
printer,
> or file system. As of 10/29/03, the utility can also be used as a
> Crystal Reports viewer (this will be much more significant in
Crystal 9
> where the Report Distribution Expert is *officially* phased out).
My VB
> source code is released under the GNU Public License
> (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt), however there are proprietary
> ActiveX controls (from Crystal Decisions) included with the
project.
> The distribution of these controls, I have learned, requires that I
> maintain a list of users - so please e-mail me your contact info if
you
> use my utility.
>
> The theory of operation is simple. You will have various ini files
that
> contain a list of reports to run and how to run them. These ini
files
> will be passed to an executable that does whatever the ini file
tells it
> to do. The executions is scheduled through Windows Task
Scheduler. So,
> for example, you may create a daily.ini file that says to print off
all
> your employee time cards, e-mail a PDF shipping schedule to your
> shipping department, and save material status reports for each of
your
> customers onto your web server. Then, inside Windows Task
Scheduler,
> you set up a job to run "rptscheduler.exe daily.ini" every day at
5:00
> AM. And that's it - you don't worry about it again.
>
> There have been a lot of changes since my last release. As I've
> mentioned, there is now a ViewReport command that acts as a
replacement
> for the Crystal runtime viewer. I've also added parameters to
> automatically pass the database username and database password.
Error
> handling is a bit better. There are also commands to specify the
> printer, driver, & orientation. Most significantly, I've done away
with
> the old setup where each report run has it's own binary. As
illustrated
> above, the ini file is passed to the rptscheduler binary - so now
you
> can have as many ini files as you like running in whatever
complicated
> manner you like. See the readme for all of the juicy details.
>
> Anyway, here is the download link:
>
> http://24.123.247.30/~aellis/downloads/
>
> Let me know if you have any questions,
> AE
>
> P.S. I believe your ODBC drivers are installed with the Vantage 4.0
> client. Go to the ODBC Administrator and add a new dsn - I believe
> there is a Progress driver already there.
>
> On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 14:09, quangthuy wrote:
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > Thanks for your help. I don't have the ODBC for Crystal 7 to run
> > with Vantage 4. Do you have it? And window scheduler won't work
> > because window can just call the application. Then, in Crystal
> > Report needs to run and then print. I never use winbatch so can
you
> > be more specific about how to use it?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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