Command line switch when running report

[Johnvan]

Hi,

I hope I am in the right forum for this question.

We have a report which needs to be updated each morning using CR v8.5. I do not have the report set to automatically refresh when opened because it needs to be opened during the day without refreshing.

Is there a command line switch I can setup in a shortcut when calling this particular report which will force it to refresh the data when opening?

Thanks,

john

 

[IdoMillet]

No such option in Crystal itself, but there are several 3rd-party report schedulers (see

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

that can let you schedule the report to run every morning and export to an RPT file (with saved data) to a location where it can be opened by your users.

Cheers,
- Ido CUT, Visual CUT, and DataLink Viewer:
view, e-mail, export, burst, distribute, and schedule Crystal Reports.

http://www.MilletSoftware.com

 

[synapsevampire]

An ugly cheat is to use a macro recorder type of program to open and execute the report each day using a scheduler.

There are numerous shareware and freeware programs to do this, such as:

http://www.tucows.com/preview/195734.html

-k