Batch processing/scheduling of Crystal Report

Hello ,
One of our crystal reports is based on customer number. We would like to schedule this report for every customer of our database. When the report is scheduled it should produce one report for each customer. Is there a batch processing function in BOE to achieve this?
Thanks for any idea,
Chrigu

This is how we solved this issue:
1. We built a Universe on the database table where the customer IDs are stored.
2. On this universe we built a simple Web Intelligence report that contains the information from the database table.
3. In InfoView create a new Publication. The source document is our RPT-file (with two parameters: Year and ID).
Under Dynamic Recipients choose the Web Intelligence report.
In the section Personalization we mapped the reports parameters with the fields from WebI report.
4. Save and schedule the publication

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