Hi All,
I’m considering implementing crystal reports on our 10.1.400 environments so that I can make reports that generate text files. SSRS is limited in this output. Is Crystal any better?
Thanks in advance
Hi All,
I’m considering implementing crystal reports on our 10.1.400 environments so that I can make reports that generate text files. SSRS is limited in this output. Is Crystal any better?
Thanks in advance
I still use Crystal and generally prefer it to SSRS but…
It’s days are (probably/definitely?) numbered as far as E10 goes.
I don’t think I’d want to start a new project based on Crystal right now.
Just wondering what kind of text files you need?
We’re not too worried about the Crystal phase-out as our parent wants to migrate us to SAP instead of upgrading us from 10.1.
Text files could be spaced, comma separated or any other. Just want to know if any have had success.
I still do this for a couple scenarios – I use CR to print a very raw-looking report with a fixed-width font and it exports to TXT nicely. Not sure of the full context of your project, but consider the BAQ Export Process, too. Export an BAQ at a scheduled time to a CSV or XML dump file.
In E10 I believe you could also use custom code/streamwriter to output text.
I’ve seen at least one example on this forum.
But… I haven’t actually used that in E10 yet.
Have previously only output to text in V8/E9 via BPM/ABL
@bordway has a good point that you can use a BPM and some custom code implementing streamwriter to generate files. You can customize this to allow some preview capabilities as well using some customization code. If you prefer the reporting tools, for this task, SSRS can be modified to provide a few different ways of creating files by modifying the RSReportServer.config file.