Can CR do this?

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have a request from our production line that I would like to pose to you as it would require, most likely, that we upgrade. Before we did that, I want to confirm that the request is do-able.

The supervisor is writing an html report that he wants to run at 5 minute intervals. So another words, he wants the report to fire off every 5 minutes and update. Is this something that can be done in Crystal Reports?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

You can do this by using BusinessObjects Enterprise.Using Crystal Reports designer you can not scheduke a report.But by using BusinessObjects Enterprise any version XI,XI R2, XI 3.0 or XI 3.1 you can schedule it at any interval. You can even send the scheduled instance via email in PDF,WORD,Excel format to the recepients.

Hope this will help you!

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Yes, BOE or Crystal Enterprise can run a report every 5 minutes, but it sounded like the original poster was looking for a screen to be refreshed, not having to open a new report every 5 minutes...

HTH,

Carl

[JWiseman · Accepted solution]

hello,

you can have a report auto refresh using the web elements library available at

there is an auto refresh function that has a parameter for the number of seconds that will elapse before the report is refreshed. once you've got your system up and running you would just create a formula calling that function and drag it on to an unsuppressed report section.

this will work in versions xi and up.

also ensure that the server settings will allow for a report to sit there for 5 minutes without logging off the user.

i hope that this helps out,

jamie

[Former Member]

If you have the HTML report that will update when you press the Refresh button on the browser, then all you have to do is add an HTML directive (perhaps wrong word?) to the page's HTML to automatically refresh the page. I have done this, but it was years ago, so I don't recall the specifics. Perhaps google "html automatic refresh"?

HTH,

Carl