Are you locked into Crystal? We found that Crystal forced us to do things
the "Crystal" way as opposed to the flexibility of coding the reports
ourselves. We're now exploring dynamically generating PDF reports using XML
with FOP. This allows us to develop the reports from scratch in any layout
we want. Admittedly, this can be a complex solution; we're working on the
feasibility analysis now but if it holds up, it'll allow us to create a
report for web and pdf out of the same XML document using CF. Therefore,
the report would be nothing more than a CF template and you could determine
the table name using a variable posted from a previous page. For more info,
check out http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html. I'll be presenting an
example of this at the CFSouth conference if you're anywhere near Orlando.
Regards,
Neil
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