Format Crisis

Afternoon Guys,
I am having similar problems to what I had before regarding Format of the Crystal reports.
Here is what I want:
I want the user to view the reports under Infoviewer in Crystal Reports Format - This I can achieve fine.
I then want this report to be sent to a recipient. The email goes fine however, the format in which this report is sent is Crystal Report where as I would like to have the format to be Adobe.
Now I have been told to go into CMC and then Click on the Object and select the Object, click on schedule and then format and change the format into Adobe.
This format will change the viewing of the Report under Infoviewer not in email. Meaning Infoviewer will show the report in PDF and then sent it in the pdf which I do not want.
Here is the sequence to help you understand what I need.
Infoviewer->Current Report->Crystal Format
Infoviewer-->Current Report->Send->Email->Adobe Format
the second option is being sent in Crystal Format and not adobe. How can I change this.
Secondly when I view the report under Crystal Viewer, how can I save the report? If I click on the folder again, the orginal report is shown and not the updated one. This means if user A updates the report, the report contents don't get updated at all.
How can I achieve this so that if a user enters new parameter inside the report, and views the report. Once he clicks on the folder, the contents of the report should be updated.
Many thanks in advance
Regards
Jehanzeb

Jehanzeb,
You can only schedule the report to 1 format at a time.  Therefore when scheduling a report to email it to a recipient as PDF format, the latest instance will be PDF format.
If you want to view the report as CR format in InfoView, just click on the report name which effectively refreshes the report on demand, this will givey ou the CR format.
Your second question: you cannot use InfoView to save CR report back into BOE.  You need Crystal Reports designer to make changes and save back to the BOE repository.
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