Crystal Delivery 5.8.5

kgroff · Site Admin

New Features:
1. Dynamic identifiers in the export destination.
The primary purpose for this will allow a user to embed a destination (email/printer/report) in the crystal report as a parameter and the have Crystal Delivery use that parameter value as the export destination by using the dynamic identifier %PV1% (or 2, 3, etc depending upon the parameter list).

2. Burst reporting.
The user can specify on parameter as a burst parameter. Crystal delivery with loop through each value individually in the burst list. For example, say you have an email parameter in your Crystal Report with 15 sales persons' addresses with the data displayed in the report dependant upon with address is selected. In Crystal Delivery, you could set the email parameter to burst all 15 addresses. This will export the report 15 times, once for each address. The is really beneficial when used in combination with new feature #1. If you set the report export destination to "Email To" and "%PV1%", each report will be emailed to the address listed in the parameter with only that sales person's data

3. Extended dyanimic parameters: Month Start +/-N, Month End +/-N, First Day Month +/-N, Last Day of Month +/- N.

4. Option to send single email with multiple destinations or multiple email with single destination.

Modified Features
1. When opening the "Crystal Reports Settings" form, CD would query the report for the latest paremters, tables, etc. This takes time and can be annoying if you just want to view the settings. So, this version will only query the report the first time the "Crystal Rerports Settings" for is open. After the first time, you can manually update the settings by clicking on the top right button. This will query the report and retrieve and changes.

2. Fixed some quirks with interface (such as the import/export report destinations)

Pending Features
1. A user had generously offered to create a more functional help file, so in the near future a better help file will be available.