Can Crystal Reports be used for report generation? (AREV Specific)
At 11 APR 2001 04:08:50AM Pierre camilleri wrote:
Hi!
We're running a Payroll system developed using AREV 3.12 and since we use Crystal Reports 6/7 within the company I was wondering whether one can use this report writer to generate reports from the Payroll system. Has anyone used Crystal to create reports from AREV applications?
Thanks
Pierre
pierre.camilleri@fosterclark.com
At 11 APR 2001 06:47AM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
Crystal Reports is not compatible with AREV. This is because Crystal reports relies on a fixed length or columnar data structure, and AREV uses multivalued (elastic) data structures (the Linear hash filing system, abbreviated to LH).
There are other Windows reporting tools for accessing AREV data under Windows, Open Insight from Revelation Software offers a Windows interface. Our S/List product, is the closest thing to Crystal Reports in the "report-from-LH data" arena.
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At 17 APR 2001 03:15PM prabir maulik wrote:
Another way to use crystal report is to write out to flat file(s) with lets say a char(9) delimiter and then use those files to create reports. You can also the files written out in such a way that they have a parent child relationship.
At 17 APR 2001 05:24PM Warren wrote:
Export to DBaseIII files. Crystal Reports works with DB3 files. Note: there is code in EXPORT.DB3 that puts a DBaseII text mark in memo fields which is not compatible with any existing version of DB3 interface. The source to EXPORT.DB3 for the version of ARev you are using should be obtained and modified (may have been removed in 3.x).