>Hi, John...
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>Hope you don't mind me sticking my $.02 in, but you're absolutely on target.
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>I've been working with Crystal for about three years right now, and have experimented with different ways of running Crystal from within VFP.
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>What you described is definitely the best way to go about it...use VFP and Rushmore to extract the data needed for the report, and then go stick the resulting recordset(s) in a FOX2X table and have Crystal use that...so I can completely bypass ODBC (yecchhh!)
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>So you're right on.
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>Kevin

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for your $.02 worth...always appreciated! I don't get to spend much time developing anymore and some of this stuff (even the relatively easy tasks) can be overwhelming at times when I'm "out of the loop". I hope you don't mind me asking a question or two...three... since you have a good grasp on CR and VFP.

I'm playing with CR using the OCX method on my development machine and I have a few basic questions. First, are you using the CR OCX approach? Is that a good way to go?

When I distribute this app with CR to the clients (LAN application), do I just need to place the files needed by CR including the CR OCX and tell the setup wizard where to put these guys, or is there any other client registration that needs to go on?

There seems to be a pile of dlls to distribute just for the basic functionality according to the CR help file. Do you know which files are definitely needed to distribute to the clients?

Thanks again for your time and expert advise.

John.