Crystal Designer Automation

Hello,
There are some features which are available in the Crystal Designer and not available in the RAS SDK.
(eg: delete datasource to create a new one, 'setSuppressEmbeddedFieldBlank' function...)
Since this is something I really need to automate,
I would like to know how to drive Crystal Designer (2008) to fullfill these tasks.
Is Ole Automation possible ? where to find some documentation ?
Thanks for your help
Best regards
Alain

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