Where do you create a Selection Criteria TOKEN? (Crystal Reports, SAP B1)

I have downloaded "How to Work with Crystal Reports in SAP Business One" and read where it mentions "tokens" (starting on page 19).  I followed the directions and created a New Parameter in a Crystal Report with the name of
BPCode@Select distinct CardCode from OCRD where CardType = "C"
as directed on page 21 as an example of a token.  OK, so now I have a parameter with a very long name that doesn't do anything when I run the report in standalone Crystal Reports connected to our SAP B1 application.
At what place in the "Create New Parameter" dialog box in Crystal Reports do you actually enter this information?  Nothing in that dialog box seems appropriate for SQL expressions.  Reading through SCN threads, I could not find anything that addressed this simple question.  What am I missing?
NOTE: I do NOT have the CR Add-In available to me in SAP B1.  I cannot get it to install.  All of my work is done in standalone Crystal Reports and all reports are then imported from there.  I am a CR developer with less than 1 month experience with SAP B1.
Thanks.

OK, so I imported an .rpt file as a "report" instead of as a layout and placed it in a known module location (though the options were extremely limited).  I had no idea where to go to run the report, but under "Modules", "Reports", and the location I just imported to, I found and chose the report.
The next step was a dialog box with two blank prompts and a third blank prompt asking for a particular field value from a table in the report.  The actual Crystal report has only two parameters (good ol' DocKey@ and ObjectID@).  I have to actually look at a known document in B1 and enter the values for the parameters before I get an actual result.
Now, more questions...
If there is a token in this report process, where is it?
Why would I run a report this way when it's going to ask me the DocEntry and ObjectId numbers which are not known to me unless I do research (Actually, what you don't know is that all of the reports I've created are revisions to marketing documents, so I haven't created anything new or unique to B1 that would involve complex analysis).
I spend almost two hours a day scouring the SCN to figure this stuff out and am still lost.  I haven't read anything anywhere that describes this process in an adequate fashion.  If SAP makes BOTH B1 and Crystal Reports, why not make the connection between them seamless and user-friendly?
Gordon, if you're listening, you'd probably do well writing another book on this subject!!

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