Running at a Service

Crewdawg · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 4:46 pm Post subject: 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
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JohnW · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:10 am Post subject:

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.

tegtex · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:04 am Post subject: 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 [b]Guessing[/b] 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.

jrgarrigues · Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject: Running as a service.

Crewdawg · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:14 pm Post subject:

I gave up on SrvAny and am trying FireDaemon today.
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Crewdawg · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:47 am Post subject:

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?
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debackel · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 5:29 am Post subject: 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.