ACCPAC 7 Crystal Reports 8.5

[bradarth]

I am going to install Crystal Reports 8.5 on a windows xp machine. My only issue is that I have no documentation on how the previous tech installed this. Does anybody know a good source of documentation to make it interface with ACCPAC 7 (dos)? A quick guide would be very helpful, I am planning on playing with it until it works, but guidance wouldn't hurt. Thank you

Brad
brad.arth@gmail.com
barth@maccnet.com

 

[jayconverse]

Are you talking about Accpac Plus for DOS? The only interface would be through ODBC Link, which is a separate product.

Jay Converse
IT Director
Systemlink, Inc.

 

[bradarth]

It is Accpac Plus for DOS. we must have the ODBC Link product, because it functions on a windows 2000 box. Thank you for the quick responce and if you have any further help, please let me know.

 

[jayconverse]

I don't have much to add, ODBC is ODBC as far as Crystal is concerned. FWIW, the most common reporting tool for Accpac Plus is Quik Reports, but that's also a separate product, and it's DOS only.

Jay Converse
IT Director
Systemlink, Inc.

 

[bradarth]

I installed ODBC link and then tried to run a crystal report refresh on a document and it poped up a box asking for the settings again. I then clicked ok and received two errors.

1)
crystal reports: database error
odbc error: [link] error loading library

2)
crystal reports
server has not yet been opened

 

[bradarth]

Here is a listing of what I have for my data sources.
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data source: sam_gl61a_32bit
dict filter: gl61a*
dict path: c:\3rdparty\working
data path: p:\asp\data
data selector: mac
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does this look remotly correct by anyone thats set this up before. obviouly the P: is a network share where ACCPAC is located. Im more or less guessing at settings, if anyone has an educated guess that would be great.

 

[jayconverse]

I'm surprised that your data path would be P:\ASP\DATA. Usually it's something like P:\ASP\DATA\MYCOMP, with all the files in there with a MAC extension. Run Accpac plus, and press TAB on the start list to confirm the path.

Jay Converse
IT Director
Systemlink, Inc.

 

[bradarth]

p:\asp\data is the path shown when I press tab on various selections. I also checked the path for *.MAC files and it has a lot of them.

 

[jayconverse]

OK, that's good then. I'm afraid I'm out of more ideas, I haven't used ODBC link in 7 years, and don't even keep a copy around anymore.

Jay Converse
IT Director
Systemlink, Inc.