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		<title>Vanishing data in Btrieve</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week a customer called me after they did an upgrade of PeachTree Accounting.&#160; It seems that the records in the report that used to sort were now appearing in random order.&#160; As soon as I added the sort back in and refreshed the report, all the records disappeared.&#160; Fortunately I had seen this before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crystal Reports 2010?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears that SAP will release a new version of Crystal Reports this year.&#160; This isn&#8217;t a big surprise given that it has been two years since the last version.&#160;  There are no details yet but George Peck mentioned in a recent article that the SAP Users Group might give a preview in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Server based options for Deploying Crystal Reports</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to deploy Crystal Reports to users.&#160; I normally lean toward the simpler and less expensive options, like locally installed viewers.&#160; But there are environments where a server based option is necessary.&#160; The &#8216;official&#8217; options from SAP are Crystal Reports Server and BO Enterprise.&#160; You can read about these on the SAP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;ALT&#8221; key temporarily releases guidelines and grid</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have come to depend on Crystal&#8217;s Guidelines for aligning objects.  I find them much more useful then the &#8220;Snap to Grid&#8221; feature, although I do use both from time to time.  But there are often cases where the object needs to be somewhere in between.  It can be frustrating to try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using unlinked tables (cross joins)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally if there is an unlinked table in one of my reports it is there by mistake.&#160; However, I have recently been reminded of some of the neat things you can do with unlinked tables, as long as you are careful.&#160; The official name for having unlinked tables is a &#8216;cross join&#8217;.&#160; The data that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So when does Winter start again (or end)?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had surgery on Friday 12/18.&#160; Nothing serious, but I knew that I wouldn&#8217;t be able to shovel any snow for a week or so after my surgery. So I intentionally scheduled the procedure before winter snow was likely to be serious.&#160; Heavy snow isn&#8217;t common in Virginia in mid-December &#160; Well, as many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using the parameter &#8220;batch&#8221; interface toolbar</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/834</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed that some parameters include a small toolbar below the List of Values (LOV) drop down?&#160; This toolbar has two scroll arrows on either side of a small drop down list and two buttons with funnels on them.&#160; The toolbar doesn&#8217;t show up very often so it took me quite a while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using negative subscripts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you need to pull a single character out of a character string, or a single item out of an array, you can use a subscript to identify the position you want like this:
{Customer.Customer Name} [3]
This example starts counting from the left to identify the third character or element.&#160; Over the years I have had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying older versions of Crystal Reports</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you need to buy an older version of Crystal Reports, all the way back to v8.5, you can now download them directly from BO (for $595).&#160; This link includes all versions from 8.5 forward.
If you want to save a few bucks you can check on Ebay, where I regularly find older versions for sale.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surfing Gecko offers &#8220;all you can eat&#8221; viewer for $129</title>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/933</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Hamady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surfing Gecko is the company behind a popular Crystal Reports viewer known as Crystal Ease.&#160; Crystal Ease is a simple viewer that allows your users to run, print, export and refresh Crystal Reports without having to install the full Crystal Reports designer.&#160; It supports Crystal versions up to XI and even allows you to tweak [...]]]></description>
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