Are you using CR 6.0 or 7.0? Does it read VFP 4,5, or 6? Do you have to use ODBC?

thanks,

ray
>>I've used Crystal Reports with VB, does it read VFP dbc's and tables?
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I heard of Crystal Report long ago. But had not tried it before. The one in the Visual studio 97 had lot of features taken out.
>>>>
>>>> 1)Is it true that it is the best report third party program out there.
>>>> 2)Can it directly access Vfp dbf files and allow my customer to select the kind of report that they want like able to choose which
>>>>fields to include/ Sum data fields/ Do SQL command like Vfp report do without us to do it ourself.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestion or advise is very much appreciated. Thank you.
>>>Hello Virusim,
>>>
>>> I agree with Joy on Crystal. I've tried them all...Foxfire, Query Manager, R & R, etc. I strongly recommend Crystal to my clients. Accounting folks are usually impressed with the Drill-down capabilities. (among other features).
>>>
>>>Good Luck!
>>>Barry
> Absolutely!!!