Running at a Service
I know this has been mentioned before in other posts, but I have not seen in the feedback session so I wanted to start the conversation here. I would like to see this run as a service because there are multiple people that need to add and schedule reports here. Under the current setup that is not as easy to accompish as it would be with a service. This leads to the question, what can be done to make this run as a service? Certainly if there is anything I can add to that effort just let me know! - Sean H

Has anyone here tried SvrAny and instsrv.exe to make a manual service out of this? I figure you would need to set the service to interact with the desktop, but I'm not sure how it would effectively call the crystal component to run the reports.

Running as a service
I was able to run CD from a stand alone computer. I wrote the reports on my computer and saved the Crystal reports on a shared drive folder. The data was pulled from a SQL server db. I am able to break a huge Crystal Report down into about 200 reports and email them out. Careful, you may really POUND on the server. I set up to dump the data into excel and then pull data from excel, THIS WAY, I WAS NOT POUNDING on the server. It used to take our business 5-6 personal and 2-3 hours to do all the cut and pasting. Now it is automatic and takes the computer about an 1 hour to run thru all the reports....BEST THING, i don't have to be there to push all the buttons. I was also able to create a file to be written to another shared folder. The text file that I create can be read by our label maker. At any time someone can walk over to the label maker and print a label for their file folders that has their Project#'s and Work Order #'s. This process has save our department countless hours of Guessing at the correct numbers to use. The program is very easy to use. The hardest part is know how to set up the email (SMTP) services.

I gave up on SrvAny and am trying FireDaemon today.

When running as a FireDaemon service Crystal Delivery seems to not include attachments after several hours of running. Restarting the service will cause it to work for a a period of several hours again. Anybody have any experience with this?

Crystal Delivery as a service
I couldn't find a definitive answer on this... Is there a way to have CD running as a service using srvany? If not, any alternative like Firedeamon? This is really a required feature in my opinion. The purpose is to have it running on a server, without logged user. Any successful experience? Thanks in advance, Laurent.