Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Crystal Decisions
EAN: 0751745120217
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Crystal Decisions
Manufacturer: Crystal Decisions
Publisher: Crystal Decisions
Sales Rank: 11742
Studio: Crystal Decisions
Editorial Review:
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not as good as shareware
As indicated in other reviews, this product is horribly buggy. Its only consistency is that it is creatively inconsistent. A rating of 1 is too high.
It's unfortunate that there is no similar competitive product available. Otherwise, this product would be yesterday's toast.
Your report info is stored in a binary file. It's a nightmare in there. Plus, unexpected and inexplicable random corruption of the binary destroys a great deal of work. Back up often.
Installation ... Read More
Rating: - Programmer's Nightmare
I don't have the space to convey just how much production time is continually being lost to this abysmally bad product in our shop of senior developers. I could go on for days. Try a little experiment before buying it: go to the CrystalDecisions website and look at some of the most common errors reported. Basic stuff like INSTALLING the product, getting it ready to package up with an install application, pointing it to a DB through just about any connection technology. And it's all downhill from there. ... Read More
Rating: - Programmers beware.
The program is full of holes and traps for the programmer. The new method of including the report in VB programs uses a lot of overhead and slows a VB program down if the number of reports is more then 4 or 5. Some necessary dependacy files are not included and it will not easly load onto computers not using the internet (a great many business computers). Crystal Software includes a 60 days support package that is not at all enough. Just visit the Crystal developer web site to view some of the problems. ... Read More
Rating:  - Great But. . . .
Its great but you have to have the Crystal Reports Design Class I, II, -> V books to help you through it. Without these it is very time consuming and the only way to get these books is to attend the classes. They are not available for sale. As I just found out :-( (They do not come with this package as I had thought) 10-12-2001
Rating:  - Nice for reporting, but has some really annoying bugs
Crystal Reports 8.5 provides a lot of features for designing reports on top of a relational database system and as far as consumer-tier goes, it's a fine product. Charts are pretty easy to use, the macro language is fairly powerful (and intuitive), and it's very easy to lay out items on the report.
There are several annoying problems with it:
1. During upgrade from a previous version, the installer removed the previous version, then complained it couldn't find a certain file needed to "prove" ... Read More
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