Difference Between Automatic and Manual Mode
OK, if I set up my report schedule, leave Crystal Delivery in manual mode and chuck it into the tray, will my reports run according to the schedule? If so why have the automatic mode? I left it in automatic mode in the tray last night and whilst my reports were attempted, they did not complete. In addition, Crystal Delivery was crashing and failure messages were coming out all over the place in the log. I deleted the back up schedule files and it seemed to fix the slow response. Very strange. Are the schedule backup text files used by Crystal, because I had edited one of them (the Main one) Thanks.

Manual mode does not deliver the report automatically. The backup files are not used unless you copied them to the same folder as your production files. Doing this may cause an issue. Can you post your log? Not all messages are failures and some failure messages will appear during normal operation.

Thanks for the reply KGroff. This is the current process log from a file that isn't even scheduled to run until 06:00 on the 16th..... I'd like to be able to diagnose problems through this log, do you have any documents that may help? 15/05/2008 10:55:38 Messasge: No files found matching 'C:\Program Files\Groff Automation\Crystal Delivery\ScheduledReports\*.tmp'. Source: Microsoft.VisualBasic Stack Trace: at Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileSystem.Kill(String PathName) at CrystalDelivery.modGlobals.KillTemp() Target Site: Void Kill(System.String) 15/05/2008 11:26:19 Messasge: Conversion from string "" to type 'Double' is not valid. Source: Microsoft.VisualBasic Stack Trace: at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToDouble(String Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat) at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToDouble(String Value) at CrystalDelivery.frmMain.CheckExports(DateTime datCurrentDate) Target Site: Double ToDouble(System.String, System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo)

The process log is not report specific. The same log file is used for all the reports. I do not have any documentation because the log is really for my use to help solve user problems. The *.tmp error you can ignore. Crystal delivery creates many temp files during normal operation. After exporting I attempt to delete these files. Right now, I am taking the easy way of just attempting to delete all of the *.tmp files without actually checking for their existence. The conversion error I will have to look into to see what is causing it.

Thanks for the help kgroff. So if I understand correctly, the log file is generated for all reports in the schedule and despite appearing to only represent one file, it actually represents all of them?

That is correct. The log file is for all reports. It is used more as log of the program, not of the reports.