Running Crystal Reports in background mode

Ist there any way to run Crystal Reports against R/3 (ECC) in background mode instead of as a dialog user? We're having timeout issues since the dialog timeout is set to 30 minutes. We have several reports that run quite a bit longer than that.
Update: I just answered my own question. Pages 58-59 of the install and configuration guide shows you how to do this.
Edited by: Mike Garrett on Jan 22, 2009 4:57 PM
Edited by: Mike Garrett on Jan 22, 2009 8:41 PM

Hi,
SIA should be all you need because it is starting the other processes as well. Keep in mind that if you do that that most likely all you reports will run in batch mode (also those called on demand.)
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