ACT!

Symantec's ACT! contact management software stores information in a relational database format similar to the xBase format. See dBASE, FoxPro, Clipper. Seagate Crystal Reports can read this data and lets you produce reports based on your contact information.

ACT! 2 databases

You open data in ACT! 2 by selecting the Crw.act file from Seagate Crystal Reports when you create a new report. Crw.act must be installed in the same directory as the program. This file forces Seagate Crystal Reports to load the P2bact.dll and P2iract.dll translation files. This step is important because ACT! 2 data looks like xBase data to Seagate Crystal Reports, so it will use the P2bxbse.dll translation file unless instructed otherwise. If this happens, the data will be translated as xBase data rather than ACT! 2 data, and may not appear correctly in your report. See ACT! databases.

ACT! 3 and 4 databases

Versions 3 and 4 of ACT! do not use an intermediate step in the translation layer. The translation files used for all ACT! databases version 3 and higher are P2bact3.dll and P2iract.dll. See ACT! databases.