CRD Helps You To Email Crystal Reports
Wish you could schedule a batch of reports as a "Package" and have them all sent out in the same e-mail? Email Crystal Reports is used for distribution of your enterprise reports to various people, inside and outside your organisation. To email Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports Distributor (CRD) provides you with the facility in defining single or packaged Crystal Reports, and schedule and run them automatically. You could also send the reports to print, fax, disk, or email in a number of standard formats. All you will need to do is to set up a schedule, mentioning the frequency of each of the report-run, and whether you would want the output in Word, Excel, HTML, RTF, Acrobat, RPT, text format, etc. You can also stipulate the report-run at specific date and time, or even to run the reports hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly. The reports could also be run at specific events.
Using CRD, emailing Crystal Reports have become easy. The software features allow you to schedule the same reports to be run multiple times, having different parameters, formats, frequencies, and destinations. In choosing repeatability in report schedules, CRD provides the feature to create the reports as scheduled, and distribute them according to the schedule that you have set, without any error, or costly involvement of your time. You can use CRD's explorer-like interface to schedule the running of your reports, and also define the distribution schedules of your email Crystal Reports. The features of CRD allows your Windows NT4/2000/XP operating system to run CRD as a service, allowing you to have an easier way to create and schedule your reports, and distribute them by email, using SMTP, MAPI, and CRDMail. CRD provides you with a wide range of:
Export formats.
Dynamic database functionality.
Custom frequency calendars.
A built in address book.
Bulk printing.
Ftp folder output, single, and ranges of parameters.
Conditional scheduling.
Group bursting.
Multi-threading.
Clustering.
and lots more. CRD helps you to email Crystal Reports, saving your time in running and distributing your reports to your line managers, or to your corporate management, providing them with tailored reports on regular schedules. There are several software packages available like CRD, which could be used as one of the Windows service components, for scheduling report-runs for timely distribution. The feature of a business calendar would enable you to plan your scheduling on business days, or during business hours. In such a scenario, the features would allow you to even create a list of holidays when you do not want your reports to run. Emailing Crystal Reports for distribution to your in-house managers and outside becomes easy with the dynamic date features available in the software. You can easily set date parameters in a report, based on the current date. Email Crystal Reports export formats include, Crystal Reports (.rpt), Microsoft Word (.doc), Rich Text (.rtf), Excel (.xls), Comma Separated Values (.csv), HTML (.htm), and Portable Document Format (.pdf). In emailing Crystal Reports, you canuse date stamping, which provides the date and time in the reports saved for distribution. All the reports that you create could be sent out by email using any of the available export formats. The reports formatted as HTML, could be sent out by email as HTML in the body of the email message. This eliminates attachment and then opening of a HTML file. The compatibility with direct SMTP, allows emailing of Crystal Report by almost any email client that you may have. You can queue your reports automatically, when your SMTP server is busy sending out other mails.
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