Command line options for Crystal

[CRUMBO]

We currently are using rainforest to run Crystals reports from our scheduler and are looking to move away from that but continue to use the scheduler as it is monitored 24/7. Is there a way to run Crystal reports via command line using SAP? or Crystal Designer?

We are using version BOBJ 4.2 SP9

[DellSC]

You could also use either the Java or .NET BI Platform SDK to write a program that will do this for you.  I have some older C#.NET sample code on my website - https://www.dellstinnett.com/sample_code.html.  BOECommonInfo is code for logging in to the CMS and for querying and BOEScheduleCrystal is for scheduling Crystal reports.  Even though this code was written for BOBJ 4.1, it should mostly still work in 4.3 and will at least get you started.  You would do similar things when working with Java. 

Using the RESTful Web Services SDK to do this is much more complicated.  You can only work with "classic" Crystal reports using the BI Platform REST API - the Crystal Reports REST API will only work with Crystal for Enterprise reports and is primarily for providing data from reports.

-Dell

[JWiseman]

Hi CRUMBO, check out Ken Hamady's site here...there's a free command line tool for exporting mentioned and several other tools.