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What's new in V5.7?

• Significant increase in the speed of load up, refresh and other general user functionalities
• Added an NT service monitor (system tray)
• Added a "Test" button on Properties- Linking for Dynamic Schedules
• Tiff Export option - ability to select the specific pages you wish to export e.g. from page 2 to 5 only
• When creating support zip file, now have the option to not encrypt the file if your email security does not allow it, and also the ability to rename the zip extension if your email system does not accept zip files.
• Ability to run a dynamic schedule from command line

What's new in V5.6?

• Compatibility with Acrobat 7
• Introduction of Dynamic Package Schedules
• Ability to set up user groups and functionality assign rights to specified groups
• Compatibility with all versions of PGP
• Further compatibilities with Crystal XI added

What's new in V5.5?

• Introduced compatibility with Crystal XI (Version 11.xx)
• Introduced security options for Merged excel output (packages)
• Ability to determine the order in which reports are listed in a package
• Reports in packages will be fired off in the order that they listed in the package
• Ability to use wildcards for email attachments (schedules and custom tasks) e.g. attach all files in a given folder by using c:\myfolder\*.*

What's new in V5.0?

Delivery

• CRD 5 introduces automated FAX delivery. CRD 5.0 will fax your reports to one or more recipients without any manual intervention
• Send a text-based report to a cell phone by sms, use Automation Schedules to send sms alerts at set times, or use Event Based schedules to send an alert when a database event occurs
• File transfer your automatically exported file using RAS or Dial-Up Networking to a PC at another location
• Dynamic Group Bursting adds much called for functionality to Dynamic Scheduling. With this feature, it is now possible to identify a group, and send the resulting burst to a database specified (or statically entered) email address. Dynamic Group Bursting is similar to standard Dynamic Scheduling, however each group in the report is treated as a report export in its own right and delivered to a specified email, printer, fax, etc.

Formats

• Export reports to Lotus 123 format (wks, wk1, wk3)
• Export Reports to TIF format

Excel Export Additions

• Burst report groups into individual worksheets in a single workbook
• Export the constituents of a package into individual worksheets in a single workbook

PDF Export Additions

• PDF Export with navigation tree
• Add Passwords
• Add Watermarks
• Export the contents of a package into a single PDF

Expanded Custom Actions - Custom actions are extra instructions CRD will perform before or after a report is exported.

• New Database Actions - add, modify, delete records etc.
• New FTP Actions - upload, download etc to ftp sites etc.
• New Registry Actions - add, delete, modify registry keys etc.
• New File & Folder Actions - create, delete, update, compress/uncompress, print etc.

Administration and Scalability

• Report Request Function: CRD will monitor an email inbox and generate and deliver reports based on the contents of emails received
• Secure User Profiles: Multi-user logon. Each user sees only schedules they have permission to see, and can only do actions they are permitted to do
• Schedule Database Storage: Ability to store your CRD schedule database in a local SQL database installation or via ODBC to your choice of database
• Multi-Activity schedules: Email, Fax, Print, FTP, SMS and File Transfer the same exported file from the same schedule
• Scheduled System Backups: CRD will automatically perform a backup at scheduled intervals
• Export Now, Deliver Later: Setting a delay between the export and the delivery gives you the opportunity to manage network load, review exported files before they are sent, and lots more

Key Features:

• Export to PDF with navigation tree (Bookmarks)
• Secure reports with PDF, Excel, PGP and Zip encryption
• Run as a Service - The scheduler can be set to run as a service. This means that you do not have to be logged in if you are using Windows NT, 2000 or XP. This greatly increases your network security
• Run as an application If you are using Windows 98, you can still run the scheduler as an application
• Intuitive interface - CRD has an "explorer" like interface and requires little or no training to understand and use
• Easy to use - You are guided through setting up of schedules by a wizard driven interface in plain everyday English. Advanced Users If you are confident enough, you can abandon the wizards and use the rich context-sensitive (right-click) menus
• Single reports - Schedule single reports to email, print, fax or output to folder
• Packaged Reports - If your report "package" consists of a number of single reports, you can schedule the entire package into a single email or a single folder
• FAX - You can fax your report
• Variety of Email Integration - Choice of MAPI integration, SMTP capabilities, and CRDMail (CRD's own internal email engine) to email your reports effortlessly
• Export formats - Acrobat (PDF), Crystal Reports (RPT), HTML (HTML), Excel (XLS), Word (DOC), Rich Text Format (RTF), Comma Separated Values (CSV), Text (TXT), Tab Separated and XML
• Actions - Email, Print, Fax, Output to Folder
• Standard Schedules - Daily, Weekly, Every week day, Monthly, Quarterly
• Repeat Schedules - Facility to repeat daily reports every 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2 etc. hours until a selected time
• Intelligent Failure Management - Email alert, write to a log file, or both if schedule fails to execute. If the report returns no data, send as normal, send an alternative email, both or none. If the report fails (due to database overload, for example), retry x times before giving up
• Embedded Database Login Credentials - If your database requires logon credentials, this can be fed in by CRD. If your package consists of different reports from different databases with different logons, CRD will cope with this as well
• Multi-Database integration - If you can see your database from the crystal reports, CRD can schedule it. OLEDB & ODBC are the main methods of connection. This makes CRD compatible with SQL, ORACLE, ACCESS and lots more
• Crystal Versions CRD works with reports written in all Crystal Reports versions including V7, 8, V9,V10 and V11 (XI)