Exporting to dynmic PDF file name

Post Author: geraldo
CA Forum: Exporting
Hallo all,
I'm using Crystal XI and looking for a solution to export reports into multiple PDF Files and using a dynamic database field name as the filename.pdfe.g. dynamic fiele is customer_id: 1234
output should be 1234.pdf
Is that possible.?
Thanks

Post Author: satyanat
CA Forum: Exporting
Hi,
There may not be a direct way to export a report to multiple PDF files in a single shot.
There is a work around but would need manual effort. Do you like to give a try?
Create a group on Customer ID and enable the New Page After option in the group footer section. Now each group on Customer ID will start on a new page. When exporting the report to PDF, using the Page Range option, we can export each group into a different PDF file.
Page range option is available when exporting from Crystal Report Desktop version but not for sure when try the same from Infoview.
Regards,
Natarajan

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