User`s guide

How Crystal Reports treats Exchange data
Crystal Reports treats Exchange Administrator data (Public Folder Admin, Public Folder ACL, Public
Folder Replica, and Mailbox Admin server types) as a physical database server. To access this data,
you must log on using a SQL/ODBC server and select the appropriate tables from the Choose SQL
Table dialog box.
When you log on to any of the Exchange Administrator servers, you must select a profile (or profiles).
Each profile represents an Exchange Server.
Note:
Refer to your Microsoft Exchange documentation for more information about how to set up and create
Exchange profiles.
A.2.4.7 Outlook
Microsoft Outlook provides powerful organization and information management tools in the form of
e-mail, calendars, task lists and other popular tools.
Crystal Reports lets you report on your Outlook data by providing the translation files crdb_p2soutlk.dll
and p2soutlk.dll. Because Outlook data is stored in a flat file system, the translation file accesses it
directly.
Note:
You must have Microsoft Outlook installed, or available through UNC (universal naming convention)
read-access. UNC is a standard format for paths that include a local area network file server. The basic
syntax is: \\server\share\path\filename
A.2.4.8 ACT!
ACT! contact management software stores information in a relational database format similar to the
xBase format. See dBASE, FoxPro, Clipper. Crystal Reports can read this data and lets you produce
reports based on your contact information.
ACT! databases newer than version 2
Versions of ACT! newer than 2 do not use an intermediate step in the translation layer. The translation
files used for all ACT! databases higher than version 2 are crdb_p2bact3.dll, p2bact3.dll, and p2iract3.dll.
For more information, search for the topic called "ACT! databases" in the Crystal Reports Online Help .
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