You can't use a DataView as a datasource. It's supposed to work, but my contact at Crystal told me that there is a bug in the current release that doesn't let it connect properly. Hopefully they will fix this in a future release. If you want to see all the ways you can connect a datasource to a report then check out Chapter 14 of my free online ebook. ----------------------- You are right. CR works with datasets, but not dataview. I discovered this while working on my book and discussed it with tech support. They worked on it and decided that there must be a casting error in their code and they created a KB issue for it. Hopefully it will be fixed in a future service pack.