Supported Features by Edition

This matrix describes most of the major features of Seagate Crystal Reports 7 by both edition (Standard and Professional) as well as platform (16 versus 32-bit). Since support for database drivers is continuously updated, please check the Seagate Crystal Reports web site for the most up to date information.

Feature	16-bit Standard	32-bit Standard	16-bit Professional	32-bit Professional	New in 7.0
Report Navigation
Smart Navigation, Group Tree, Drill down, Search
Analyzer view for Maps and Graphs
Rapid Application Development
Report Designer Component (ActiveX Designer) for Visual Basic 5.0/6.0					VB 6.0 Support
Active Data Driver support for runtime data sources
Automation Server (OLE) Interface
Crystal Active Server Component
Event/call-back support
Visual Basic Custom Control (VBX)
ActiveX (OCX) control
Delphi control (VCL)					Improved
Report Engine DLL functions					New Calls
MFC Class Library with AppWizard
INFORMIX-NewEra Class Library
Web Reporting
Ad-hoc query and analysis
Dynamic data refresh capability
Page-on-demand
HTML translator
ActiveX and Java viewers					Improved
Local printing from viewer
Export to HTML
Local export to RPT, XLS and RTF
Crystal Web Report Server (ISAPI/NSAPI/CGI)
Web Application Development
Crystal Active Server Component
JavaBean report viewer
General Features
User-defined functions written in any COM-compatible language	Read Only	Read Only
Enhanced Data Dictionaries	Read Only	Read Only
SQL database access
Report options saved with report
Fully customizable Runtime Preview Window
Drill down in Runtime Preview Window
Compiled reports
Parameter fields					Improved
Microsoft Intellimouse support
Apex True DBGrid 5.0 support
Native PC Database and File Access
ACT! 2.0
ACT! 3.0
ACT! 4.0
Clipper (NTX)
Btrieve (all indices, requires DDFs)
dBASE III, III+, IV (NDX, MDX, BDE)
FoxPro 2.6 (IDX, CDX)
Microsoft Access 1.0–2.5, 7.0 (Jet/DAO)
Microsoft Access Queries (Jet/DAO)
Paradox 3.5–4.5 (Native)
Paradox 3.5–8.0 (BDE)
Native Client/Server and Network Data Access
Arbor Essbase
Centura (formerly Gupta) SQLBase
IBM DB2, DB2/400, DB2/6000
IBM DB2/2
Informix
Microsoft Exchange Server (and Folders)
Microsoft Internet Information Server
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Systems Management Server
Microsoft SQL Server (Native and Intersolv DataDirect)
Microsoft Windows NT Event Logs				(NT Only)
Netware SQL
OLE DB
Oracle 7, 8
Sybase SQL Server 10 & 11, Adaptive Server 11.5
Web server activity logs (NCSA format)
ODBC Data sources (ODBC Drivers Included)
ASCII
dBASE
IBM DB2/2
Informix			(Inet 5)	(Inet 5,7)
Lotus Notes 3.x
Microsoft Access 1.0–2.5, 7.0, 8.0
Microsoft Access Queries
Microsoft Excel (XLS) 4.0–5.0, 7.0, 8.0
Microsoft FoxPro
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0
Oracle 7.x
Oracle 8.x
Paradox
Sybase SQL Server 10 & 11, Adaptive Server 11.5
ODBC Data Sources (ODBC Drivers Not Included)
Computer Associates CA-Open Ingres
Pervasive (formerly Btrieve) NetWare SQL
Sybase SQL Anywhere 5.0 (Watcom 5)
All other ODBC-compliant sources
Additional SQL Features and Tools
SQL Query Tool	Read Only on .qry files	Read Only on .qry files			New tool for 32-bit
SQL Pass-through
Security Pass-through
Stored procedure support (Access via ODBC, Oracle 7.2, Sybase, SQL Server, Watcom/SQL Anywhere)
New Data Dictionary interface
Database driver conversion
Sort data on SQL database servers
Group-by, aggregation and SQL expressions on SQL database servers
Documentation
Expanded User’s Guide
Online Technical Reference
Online User’s Guide
Report Types
Subreports
Multiple Section Reports
Form-style Reports
Conditional Reports
Mail Merge Documents
Cross-tab Reports
Form Letters
Query Reports
Mailing Labels
Top N Reports
Drill Down
Report Design Control
Drawing-style Interface
User defined ToolTips for report objects
Format Editor
Conditional Formatting
Field Highlighting
Text Objects
Subreport Objects
On demand subreports
Cross-tab Objects					Improved formatting
Underlay Sections
Multiple Detail Sections
Guidelines & Vertical Rulers
Undo & Redo
OLE Drag & Drop Between Windows
Report Experts
15 Report Creation Experts (total)					Improved
Document Import Tool
Field Mapping Expert
Select Expert
Section Expert
Group Expert
Form Letter Expert
Subreport Expert					Improved
Running Totals Expert
For Presentation-Quality Reports
Line drawing, box drawing, and graphic image support (BMP,JPEG, TIFF, PCX, TGA)
BLOB Bitmap Support
Integrated Mapping
Integrated Charting (Graphs)					New User Interface
Charting and Mapping on Subtotals, Groups, and Formulas
ActiveX (OLE) Container
OLE 2.0 Support
Formula Control of Formatting
Data Manipulation
Multi-pass reporting
Over 160 built-in functions and operators for manipulating data					Improved
Formula editor with multi-select, search/replace and bookmarking					New User Interface (32-bit)
Unlimited grouping and sorting
Sorting on groups
Custom (named) grouping
Top N, bottom N sorting
Extensible formula language (user-defined DLL functions)
Include graphs in reports using any of 80 fully integrated and customizable styles
Report Distribution
Microsoft Mail Support
Microsoft Exchange Support
Lotus cc:Mail Support
Lotus Notes Support
Internet/Intranet Export (HTML 3.0, Internet Explorer 2.0, and Netscape 2.0) for automatic Web publishing
Export to ODBC
Export to RTF					Improved
Export formats for Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, Word, Excel, and text
Export to Quattro Pro
Export and/or e-mail reports with saved data for mobile or remote analysis
Compiled reports for free distribution of executable reports
Web report deployment

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