The application and the reports

Your other challenge is based on the customizing of these systems. There is no standard database format; it is different for every company. To provide a solution, you must create client server applications that can extract the data from a meta-layer and then utilize the extracted information within the reports you provide for your users. Crystal Reports 8 takes advantage of two features to provide an answer:

Linking a report to an ADO recordset is not a new feature, but is closely associated with the new Unbound Fields capability. An unbound report field:

This is the case, every time you write an application that is meant to connect to a customized ERP type application! Now you have a solution:

By designing your application using unbound report templates, you can still give users the ability to generate reports against this data, even though at design time the data doesn't exist.



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