Special Edition Using® Crystal Reports® 10

Event-based Scheduling

A scheduled job can work with events in two ways: A job can wait to run until an event is triggered or it can be the one that triggers events upon success or failure of itself. Jobs using events keep the same scheduling rules with respect to dates and times and reoccurrences; however, the start dates don't imply when the report starts processing, but rather when the report starts listening for the event. The most common scenario around events is needing to wait for a data warehouse load to complete before a job is run. There are several steps involved in setting up this scenario. First, an event needs to be created. This can be done via the Crystal Management Console or programmatically. The next chapter discusses how to ...