Advice for multiple reports "package"

[RustyAfro]

CR XI R2

Hi everyone,

I need to put together a package of about 15 reports and am hoping anyone can share their tips for accomplishing this.

The reports are different enough that they must reside in different .rpt files but the user needs to be able to:
- Refresh them all from a single interface
- Export them all into a combined PDF
- View them all (whether in tabs or a giant report) when opened.

My only thoughts so far is to combine each report as a subreport in a main report that handles the prompts and pushes them down to each sub report. The user can click each report then to open it in a tab to get the drill down functionality of that report.

However, this prevents me from using sub reports in the "sub reports".

Are there any other ways to accomplish this than what I described?

 

[IdoMillet]

Consider a 3rd-party tool as an alternative to the subreport approach. See list of such tools at:

http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html.

My Visual CUT software allows you to automate the process of exporting a bunch of reports to pdf, merging the pdf files to a single pdf (including the ability to add bookmarks so the user can navigate across the component "files", and optionally emailing the resulting fle. This can be done as a scheduled task, triggered from a desktop shortcut, etc.
Another option provided by Visual CUT is to export the reports as different tabs in a single excel workbook.

- Ido

view, e-mail, export, burst, distribute, and schedule Crystal Reports.

http://www.MilletSoftware.com

 

[RustyAfro]

Ido,

I keep seeing your software pop up and if it can really do all that it says, I'm very interested. I have sent you an email asking for a trial to see if it will work for us.

Thanks,

Joel

 

[MJRBIM]

We use the APOS "Report Package Booster" to combine multiple reports into a single PDF.

http://www.apos.com