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	<title>The Crystal Reports&#174; Underground</title>
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		<title>Desktop Based Scheduling Engines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How would you like your reports to be automatically run, exported to a PDF and delivered to your Email InBox every Monday morning at 6am?&#160; The Crystal Reports designer doesn&#8217;t provide a way to do this (unless you upgrade to CR Server or BO Enterprise).&#160; But if you look at third party products like those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/1067</link>
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		<title>Finding all uses of a variable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting with v11.5 Crystal has made it easy to find all uses of a field within the formulas of a report.&#160;  Just right click on the field&#160; (database, formula, parameter, etc) and select &#8220;Find in formulas&#8221;.&#160;&#160; Even for those of you using older versions of Crystal there is a workaround in my Expert Techniques [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/1053</link>
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		<title>Superscript numbers in a Crystal Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my clients just sent me a formula that turns the numbers from 1 to 20 into superscript characters.&#160;&#160;&#160; You could do the same thing with subscript characters if you wanted to, but you would need to look up all the Unicode values in a chart like this one.&#160;&#160; Note that you must display [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/1040</link>
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		<title>Changes coming for the SAP/BO certification exams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of my readers know that I don&#8217;t think much of the various Crystal Reports certifications that have been offered over the years.&#160; But for those of you find these valuable, you should know that SAP is changing the Business Objects certification exams to align them with the SAP exams. You can read more about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/1038</link>
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		<title>Screen Problems in the Standard Report Wizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like using the &#8220;report wizard&#8221;&#160; to create the first draft of a new report.&#160; It was even better back in v8.5 when you had the report expert and could loop through the steps several times.&#160; But even now I find the wizard helpful.&#160; Not only can you quickly assemble a simple report, but it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/579</link>
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		<title>Reporting on the Database Schema</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most databases are designed with special tables or views that are designed to store the structure of the database.  Each database platform is different but the list below should be a start.  To get a list of tables you can use a command object that says the following:
Oracle: SELECT table_name FROM all_tables
SQL Server: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/857</link>
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		<title>Vanishing data in Btrieve</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/638</link>
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		<title>Crystal Reports 2010?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/1006</link>
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		<title>Server based options for Deploying Crystal Reports</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/995</link>
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		<title>&#8220;ALT&#8221; key temporarily releases guidelines and grid</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/989</link>
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