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Reporting, Part 6: Crystal Reports from ... Lawson Reports?

In the previous article in our on-going series on reporting options for Lawson, we looked at ways to use the Lawson OLE DB Provider with Crystal Reports. Although I generally advocate using your native database provider where appropriate, I told you there's one important advantage to using the Lawson OLE DB Provider. And, it's called Xtra. It's part of the Lawson OLE DB Provider, which can be purchased separately, or bundled as part of Lawson Enterprise Reporting, Lawson Reporting Services, or Lawson Reporting Suite.  Read More..

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  • sVayeBob K One option is to add the distribution group to the job. Then when it is submitted via process flow or jobdef it will be routed without any extra action on your part. Keep in mind that the distribution group can only be added to a job when it is created in jobdef (in LID) or job list (in Portal).
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    • Jeff NJimIII I saw your post on customizing labels. what did you use to modify them? Did it provide a WYSIWYG view of your changes? I am trying to increase the font size on the custom item labels and adjust the barcode size and position to accommodate. Thanks, Jeff
      about 10 hours ago

      • Bob K In Print Manager, I manually send reports to users via "Send To Group" or "Send To User" under Action drop-down menu. How can I do this same thing in Process Flow. I think if I knew the GEN object(s) that do this, I may be able to figure it out.
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