Could anyone please help.

I am trying to create a report, but unfortunately I can not just use a
couple of recordsets as a source. This is because the reports data
is extracted from a middle tier of business object dll's, which pass only
variant arrays. The problem is I can't find any instructions on how to
approach this, specifically how to get crystal to look at the variant array
or a text file created from the variant array.

Thanks very mucj in advance

In the standalone latest version CR6 there are facilities
specifically to do what you want - the "Active Data Driver"
and "Crystal Data Object". We are still investigating these.

In earlier versions, your options are (and I won't go into details):

1. A series of formulas populated from the data (yuk!!),
2. Place data into a data grid and report from that,
3. Write data to a text file in a defined format, report against
the text file (which you set up as an ODBC text data source).
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Les Schmalzbach
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