1.

Schedule a simple Crystal Report to export to HTML every weekday at specified times of the day.

2.

Schedule a number of reports as a "package" to export to PDF every Monday and Friday at specified times of the day.

3.

Schedule to delete specified files from a specified folder every other Sunday at 19:00.

4.

Event-Based Schedule

Fire off and deliver reports automatically when an event occurs.  Here are some examples.

If a file exists If a file has been modified If a database record changes If a database record exists If an unread email is present	Advanced: If a new database record exists, use  the data in the record to send an email to a recipient Advanced: If an unread email is present use data in the email to create a new database record.

5.

Group a number of event-based activities and determine timing, order of execution and more

6.

Dynamic Schedule

CRD will reel through a list of parameter values, generate a unique report for each value, and deliver each report to a unique destination (e.g. email address, folder, etc).

• Basic
• Advanced

7.

Dynamic Package

Same as Dynamic Schedules, but multiple reports to specified destinations.

Basic Advanced

8.

Burst out groups, sections and sub reports to different destination

9.

Dynamically pull parameters and destination information for multiple recipients from a database table.  CRD will reel through these, create and deliver each report according to the data in the table.

10.

Create your own scheduling frequencies using Custom Calendars.

11.

Set up logon credentials for main report, sub reports, table level.  Suppress non required report sections and other options. Keep copies of exported reports for x days.

12.

How to tell CRD what report parameter values to use.

13.

Manage sub report properties, logon credentials, parameter values etc.

14.

Retry x times on failure. What to do if the report "hangs". Take some action if the report returns no data.

15.

Destinations

CRD will send your reports to a number of destinations.

Printer Fax Email	FTP Disk SMS (Cell phone text) ODBC

16.

Set up a number of destinations (email, printer, fax, SMS, folder and FTP) and use them over and over again.

17.

Output Formats

Learn how to quickly set up schedules to export to pdf, tiff, xls, and many more formats.  Also shown are output features e.g. custom report naming, zipping the export, zip encryption, deferred delivery, and lots more.

Acrobat (PDF) Crystal Report (RPT) Data Interchange Format (DIF) dBaseII (DBF) dBaseIII (DBF) dBaseIV (DBF) Lotus 1-2-3 (WK1) Lotus 1-2-3 (WK3) Lotus 1-2-3 (WK4) Lotus 1-2-3 (WKs) XML (XML)	Character Separated (CSV) HTML (HTM) Excel 7 (XLS) Excel 8 (XLS) Excel 97-2000 (XLS) Excel Data Only (XLS) Word (DOC) Rich Text (RTF) Tab Separated (TXT) Text (TXT) TIFF (TIF)

18.

Run an exe, update a database, etc before or after a report is run.

19.

Insert Constants (e.g. Yesterday's Date, CurrentScheduleName, ExportedFileName) to automate otherwise repetitive and mundane processes.

20.

User Management

Set up a new CRD users and groups  and assign specified schedules and security rights.

Setting up a new user Using groups to assign security rights and other functionality

21.

Make CRD pick up changes to the report structure automatically.

22.

Set up CRD to use MAPI to send emails.

23.

Integrating the NT service Exchange Server

Set up CRD to use Exchange Server to send emails.

24.

Set up CRD to use CRDMail to send emails.

25.

Set up CRD to send SMS text alerts.

26.

Set up CRD to use SMTP to send emails.

27.

Set up CRD to use GroupWise to send emails.

28.

Schedule and automatically backup the CRD system and files.

29.

Set up CRD to use the Application Scheduler.

30.

Set up CRD to use the Windows (NT) Service.

31.

Set up Contact and Groups using the CRD Address Book.

32.

Use smart folders to group schedules and to report on schedule activity

33.

Don't type the same password, email body, signature etc over and over again.  With User Defaults you can enter than once, and reuse them each time your write a schedule.

34.

Set up an audit trail showing activities that have happened in CRD.

35.

Connect to and administer remote installations of CRD from your PC.

36.

The "Master" controls a bank or "cluster" of PCs ("slaves") and instructs them what to run and when.  See how easy it is to set this up.

37.

The CRD data (schedule info etc) is stored in a Access database locally.  Migrating to a SQL, Oracle or other ODBC compliant database gives you enterprise scalability and reliability - and gives you the ability to write triggers, stored procedures and add custom functionality.

38.

Migrate back to the local file system.  Useful if you know your server is going to be down for maintenance.

39.

A quick tutorial on the features and benefits of the "Outlook" tab.

40.

Set schedules to poll and run only during certain hours of the day

41.

Insert the resulting value of a field in the Crystal Report into other parts of the system e.g. email, file names, etc.