emailing a (view of a) crystal report

[SmagO]

Hi all,
I have a web (asp) system which generates many crystal reports. One of these crystal reports is a form which is used to submit claims. We need to e-mail this form to various organisations.

Obviously we cant just email the crystal report as an attachement. Any ideas of the best way I could go about in emailing the reports with their data and format in a file format that is accessible by the masses?

Thanks

[davidrobin]

Exported to PDF is quite versatile.

[SmagO]

you mean you can export a crystal report to PDF? Do you need an adobe writer for this?

[davebat]

no, the object to export the report comes complete with crystal

[SmagO]

There seems to be some disagreement over whether Crystal Reports 8 can do this.

[davidrobin]

This is for CR 8.5

With you report open
File->Print->Export
In the format dropdown select Acrobat format (PDF)
In the destination dropdown save it to disk.
You will be prompted for a location.

Now if the exporting needs to be done at run time, dynamically.
This is a VB example.

Private sub cmdExportPDF_Click()
dim ex as cRAXDRT.ExportOptions

set ex = CrystalReport1.ExportOptions

ex.DestinationType = crEDTDiskFile
ex.DiskFileName = "c:\aExport.pdf"
ex.FormatType = crEFTPortableDocForomat
ex.PDFExportAllPages = true
CrystalReport1.Export (false)
Exit Sub

Sorry I don't have an ASP example, hope this helps.