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Mar 28, 2018 at 03:55 PM

Schedule Crystal Report with dynamic parameter depending on actual date

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Hi, we run BOE 4.2 SP4 Patch6. We provide some hundrets of Crystal Reports (so called Controlling proven Reports) and would like to add an additional Service for our users. We think about giving the users the ability to schedule reports with predefined parameters to make their live easier. So user takes a report and starts scheduling let's say every Monday and he enters his departement and his productarea, So far so good. This will work perfect as long as there is no time related parameter. Unfortunately mostly all reports have a time dependency. I found no way to connect a report parameter called "Periode" with a kind of system variable like "actual period". I have to feed the parameter with a fixed value or duplicate all Reports and change the timeparameters to a formula. If I have to change a fixed value for each report run I don't need scheduling and if I at least have to duplicate the reports for scheduling it means a lot of work as we talk about really complex reports.

Maybe there is a way to easily feed the schedule with predefined dynamic time variables?

Thx in advance, Stephan