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Setting up Crystal Launcher
- Crystal Launcher is not a report designer or report
writer. It simply allows the user to easily launch or run a Crystal Report
which has already been created. The Crystal Launcher is convenient (it
installs on the ACCPAC Desktop) and allows the user to enter the report ranges
in a convenient and familiar fashion.
- A Launcher Name is a setup that matches parameter
(print range) fields, runs and displays an existing Crystal Report. This program will not create new Crystal Reports. The existing Crystal Report must be available in the correct
subdirectory under the Crystal Launcher program files.
See the Program Help – Technical Notes for the location of the
directory. Also see Setup menu
option for the path to the RPT files.
- The menu option, Setup,
sets the path to the RPT (Crystal Reports) files and allows additional User
Defined Fields to be added
- The setup of the Launcher Name allows the user to chose
from a list of existing fields that match the parameter fields in the
existing Crystal Report and links the Report to the Launcher Setup.
This allows the parameters for the Crystal Report to be set in the
Crystal Launcher.
- Once a Launcher setup has been created and Launcher
Fields and Parameter Fields have been matched, saving the setup will retain
the matching of parameters.
- Parameter values will be reset if the Launcher setup is
modified. To retain an existing
Launcher setup, choose Yes from the information box which appears when Modify
is chosen and modify the Launcher name. This will retain the original setup with the existing
parameter values and create a new setup with the modified name.
Make any changes, set parameters, if desired, and save the modified
setup.
- If
the default range is accepted for fields in the Launcher setup, no parameter
selection will be passed to the Crystal Report and all data will be
displayed in the Report.
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