Bill,

Adding (CR) to a Crystal Report design file name is a good mnemonic to visually distinguish a CR report design name in your reports folder, but that naming convention has no procedural significance.  

When you add a new report to a Report Menu using Reports Manager (Reports > Reports Manager), you are presented with three radio buttons under the "Source" section of the "New Report" pop-up panel. Always choose the "Crystal report deign" option when the design file name is a Crystal design. That will assure that the report triggers the run-time version of Crystal Reports to process the report.

All parameter prompts for Crystal Designs must be built into the Crystal Design. There is no option to present the native Timberline Report prompts such as "Ranges" or "Conditions".

Hope that helps clarify your situation.

Art Minds

(former) Sage Timberline Office Certified Consultant

Pasadena, CA

Thank you for your help Art.

I have selected the "Crystal Report" option on the 'Change Report' dialog, but my Crystal parameters are not appearing.  I have found an existing Crystal Report that is showing parameters so I am now examining it to find out what is different.

My parameters include a date range for which I had a Begin Date and an End Date parameter.  The existing report has a single range parameter marked 'Allow discrete values: FALSE'.

I changed my report to handle the parameter the same way, and now the new report is showing the parameters.  

I have a couple other things in play on this report that I need to check, but parameters appear to be working now.

SAP is the current ownder of Crystal reports. Sage 300 CRE used Crystal Reports XI. There are many resources available online.

I did find the the user's guide which you may find helpful. Chapter 23 is parameter fields and prompts.

http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir2/en/xir2_cr_usergde_en.pdf

Also as of Sage Timberline Office 9.8 you can create Ranges with Crystal reports. For more information you can review the knowledgebase article How do I add ranges to my Crystal report? ID: 23173

There is a search capability in Sage City in the top right. There are then filters that can help you narrow the search in a sidebar on the left.

Casey Knapp

Senior Customer Support Analyst, Sage Construction and Real Estate

Sage North America

Thank you Casey.

I think my actual problem was my report was using a data source other than "Timberline Data Source", so Sage CRE was not able to get data and also did not show the parameters.