Crystal Reports Distributor description
Saves you from the mundane job of manually running Crystal Reports daily

CRD is an application for Windows that saves time and money by making it easy to define single or packages of Crystal reports, schedule and run them automatically, and send the reports to print, fax, disk, ftp or email in a number of standard formats.

Simply set up a schedule stating how often you would like each report to run, whether you'd like the output in Word, Excel, HTML, RTF, Acrobat, RPT, text format, and more and who it should be sent to.

CRD is a program that defines, schedules and runs packages of Crystal reports.

Use standard frequencies like Daily, weekly, monthly or set up your own custom frequencies e.g. 4-4-3, every other day, third Monday of the month.

It's easy to schedule reports to run at a specific date and time, or to run them hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly.

The same report can be scheduled to be run multiple times with different parameters, formats, frequencies, and destinations.

Respond to your business needs by setting schedules to run based on events rather than date. With CRD's Event Based Schedules, you can have reports fired off when events occur e.g. database value is present, file is modified, window is present.

Use CRD's unique Dynamic Schedule process to trawl through your database to find the parameter values to use and then generate and deliver a unique report for each value.

And with Bursting Schedules you can quickly and easily burst out and deliver report groups to different recipients, printers, folders etc.

Once your schedule has been executed, why stop there? Use CRD's unique Custom Actions to run another program , enter values in a database, modify a file and lots more.

CRD's familiar Explorer-like interface makes it easy to define and schedule report packages. The context (right-click) menus and full copy-and-paste support make it easy to create complex distribution schedules.

The scheduling service runs as a desktop application, or as an NT service. It will integrate with Exchange Server 5 (SP4) and above (2000 and 2003) or SMTP. Worried about Outlook security prompts? CRD deals with these expertly - ensuring complete uninterrupted automation.

By automating repetitive reporting tasks, CRD ensures that reports are created and distributed when needed, without error, and without costly support time.

Features include the ability of Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003 users to run CRD as a service, an improved intuitive user interface, a comprehensive scheduler that lets you create reports at any frequency, and send them to print, fax, disk, or email (using SMTP, MAPI, and CRD own Email Service), a wide range of export formats, dynamic database scheduling and the efficiencies and advantages of .NET technology.

Whether you're spending too much time running and distributing Crystal Reports output to line managers, or you need to provide corporate management with tailored reports on a regular schedule, CRD gives you the tools that you need.

Here are some key features of "Crystal Reports Distributor":

· Schedule reports to run at a specific date and time or Hourly, Daily, Week Days, Weekly or Monthly. Or set up your own custom frequency calendars.
· Export Crystal reports to many file formats including Microsoft® Word, Rich Text (RTF), Excel (XLS), HTML, PDF, Text, RPT, CSV, XML and lots more
· Email your Crystal report (CC and BCC too!) using SMTP, Outlook, Exchange, MAPI or CRDMail.
· Print your Crystal report.
· Schedule your report to print to multiple printers (Bulk Printing)
· Send your Crystal report to a local or network folder or directory.
· Transfer your Crystal report to an FTP folder or destination.
· Fax your Crystal report.
· Run custom actions before your Crystal report is exported.
· Run custom actions after the report export has completed.
· The same report can be scheduled to be run multiple times with different parameters (discreet and ranges), formats, frequency and destinations.
· "Dynamic" schedules will reel through a database, automatically populate parameter values, and send reports to the corresponding email address from a database. Use our easy interface, or paste in your own fancy SQL script. With some manipulation, you can "burst" report groups to different recipients, add conditions and criteria, and lots more...


Requirements:

· PIII 750MHz
· 32MB RAM
· Crystal Reports runtime distributables
· The latest Microsoft .NET Framework


Limitations:

· 30 days trial
· Fully functional demo only allows 5 schedules to be set up.