I think Craig is saying to use the cursors you used in your VFP report data environment and copy those using the COPY TO ... FOX2X . Then you'll have to open Crystal add those tables to the report and begin creating your report from there.
I don't think copying the .frx will help you any...
>Why change? Stupid reason, sales rep says it MIGHT sell better if reports are in Crystal! I've been posponing it as you can well understand. I'm still not sure I'll do it. I just took this opportunity to get a feeling of how it could be done.
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>You know what Craig, I'm still not clear on how you would do it. Would it be something like this:
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>Step 1: open the frx and modify to do COPY TO .. TYPE FOX2X then run the frx to creates the table automatically.
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>Step 2: open Crystal, choose the new table created in step1 as my data source.
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>Step 3: Drop fields and caption in Crystal and design the reports with conditions, totals, etc.
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>Step 4 : Keep the table creates in Step 1 just in case I need it again. Or maybe that is not necessary?
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>My small experience is with Crystal 8.5
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