Running Scheduled Crystal Reports for Multiple Customers!

Hi,
We are trying to accomplish what we felt was a very common practice with reports.
We have CR 2011, CR 2011 Enterprise, CR Server 2011.
What we are trying to accomplish is very simple.
Currently, I have a prompt in my report that prompts me with a dynamic list based on a small sql statement my report, it provides a list of individual customer and their id's. It takes that ID , puts it into another SQL statement in the command and generates just that customers data. it works perfectly!
What we are trying to do is use crystal server 2011 to take that report in question, schedule it, and have it run for each of the dynamic customer id's that I previously used when it prompted the screen.
The reports cannot use multiple values as we only want each customer data to be included in the report.
We need to have the scheduler run this report for our 10 different customer idu2019s and send it to their individual email addresses at a scheduled time each day.
Is this possible? This has to be a very common request of reporting tools.
If SAP software cannot do it, is there a 3rd party software that will allow our reports to be ran in the way I am wanting?

Hi Rsheppick,
Within CR Server you can use the publication functionality to create a publication and schedule this to external customers - for this you would have to use a dynanic recipient list to map the customers email id's to a field in the source report.
The workflow is described in the online Publication document, accessible at the SAP Support site.
I hope this is a very helpful answer to you.
Kind regards,
John

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