We have all been there. Staring at the screen, watching the little counter, waiting as Crystal Reports takes its time exporting what should be a simple report to a file format of your choosing. Worse still, the report takes so long that when you schedule it to run, you have to schedule it to run in the middle of the night just so the data is ready when you walk into the office in the morning.
Building HTML Tables from a SQL Dataset in remiCrystal
Sometimes, creating an entire report can be overly complicated and time consuming. There are indeed times when all you need is just a basic HTML table with your data embedded in an email or HTML document.
In remiCrystal, you can bypass the entire report creation and configuration process and just use your SQL query to create an HTML table that can be used in one or more tasks. You can even style it with your CSS scripts.
Here is a short video that shows exactly how to do that.