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# Technical Summary

## Working with other Tools

The other tools that the Run Crystal Report Steps interacts directly with, whether by exposing information to it or consuming information from it, are listed below.

### Consumed from Other Tools

Icon | Tool Name | Tool Category
--- | --- | ---
| Database Query (ODBC) | Input and Data Connectors
| Database Query (OLEDB) | Input and Data Connectors
| Import Flat File | Input
| Convert XML to Recordset | Format
| Filter Data | General

### Objects Consumed

Objects that the Run Crystal Report Step consumes that are exposed by other Steps are listed below.

|  | Recordset — Information structured into columns and rows

|  | Variables (Text) — Textual data is extracted from selected Variables

### Exposed to Other Tools

Icon | Tool Name | Tool Category
--- | --- | ---
| Print Document | Output
| Save File | Output
| Send Email (SMTP) | Output
| Send Text Message | Output
| Transfer File (FTP) | Output
| Call COM Object | Execute
| Run External Program | Execute

### Objects Exposed

Objects that the Run Crystal Report Step exposes that can be utilised by other Steps are listed below.

|  | Documents (HTML) — One or multiple HTML documents

|  | Documents (Paged HTML) — One or multiple paginated HTML documents

|  | Data — All available output data types that the Crystal Reports application provides, including PDF, Excel, CSV and RTF.

|  | Step Properties — A number of properties for the Step are exposed in the Environment tab of the Task Browser window

## Dependencies

The products, technologies, protocols or systems that are required for the Run Crystal Report Step to work are listed below.

|  | Crystal Reports — Crystal Reports Developer Edition

|  | Crystal Reports Runtime version 13.0.20 must be installed

|  | Reports created in Crystal Reports version 10, 11, 12, 2008, 2011, 2013, or 2016 are accepted

## Additional System Requirements

There may be additional system requirements imposed by Business Objects Software for the Crystal Reports application that are over and above the King Task Centre core requirements.

## Global Configuration

The Run Crystal Report tool does not require any global configuration before being used in a task.

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