are there some methods i could use to present data in crystal report

[xinweizaixian]

Hi,

i am new in progress and crystal report, i know i could make report in crystal, send a sql to progress and present the final result in crystal. now i have many simple data in txt format and i wonder if there are some mechanisms which could let me define a report style or something else and when i make those txt file as input and it could give me the reports in crystal report while i do not need to modify the definition i defined before, in a word, i could make this automatically and do not need to create the reports one by one?

Are there some mechanisms in progress database or crystal report? if ProDataSet could work?


Any help will be appreciated!

 

[xinweizaixian]

in the whitepapers_integration_crystal_report, there are several solutions,

ABL calling Crystal + ActiveX viewer

WebSpeed / URL reporting

Using AppServer to retrieve data – Java + Temp Tables

Using AppServer to retrieve data – ADO.Net + ProDataSets

Using ODBC to retrieve data

Which one is most widely used? i am new in this field, so i do not know so much of that.