Coding to write scheduled report back into CE input repository

[ivankwk]

Hi ,

Is there anyone out there who has done this before?

Ivan

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
To accomplish what, exactly?

 

[ivankwk]

I am trying to eliminate the need to schedule a Customer Details report multiple times in CE because I need to set the parameters over and over again for about 200 times just to cater for splitting the report up to each customer.

What I was thinking is can I schedule the Customer Report first and save the report with save data in the Crystal Enterprise Input Repository instead of the Output.

After that we will split the report from the existing saved report instead of going to the database everytime.

Ivan

 

[SurfingGecko]

One thing (rather critical) that you need to be aware of here, is that the Input is used to store you main report objects. Sure you could do this via SDK, buuuuuut these objects DO NOT have saved data. Any saved data will be stripped out when published.

The Output is for report instances that contain saved data.

You may want to look at a 3rd party solution to help you with this and maybe some report bursting might be handy depending on how your report is done.

http://www.kenhamady.com/tools.html

Cheers,

SurfingGecko

http://www.surfinggeckosoftware.com

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