Goldmine & Crystal Reports

We have been wanting to create some reports for goldmine and the internal report writer is awful. We have really struggled to use it. Finally I decided to give crystal reports (9.0) a try and it was heavenly. I am familiar with cr 9 and it took me only minutes to do what we had been strugglin for days to do with the built in report writer.

I could not however, figure out how to make the crystal reports available from within goldmine. There is an option in "Print Reports" to choose Crystal Reports, but it doesn't work. A search of the newsgroups confirms that this is a pain in the rear to set up. Lots of talk of having to find the exact dlls from the cr 9 cd and having to put them on the machine running goldmine. Versions vary by goldmine version and maintenance is a nightmare. Since I can easily deploy the cr reports to the web I am not going to worry to much about having them avialable in GM.