Creating a report using ttx file format

Question

<font size="2"><p>Hello All </p><p>I have downloaded the professional version of the Crystal Reports for Eclipse. I wanted to know if a report template can be created using a ttx file format and passing recordsets at run time to the reports. If an example can be provided it will be great. </p><p>I tried to look for the ttx file format in crystal but could not locate the same. Is it available with the professional edition..</p><p>Any help is highly appreciated.</p><p>thanks </p></font>

Answer 1

Hi,
In CR4E you can mimic the TTX design process using a Java class file and our POJO implementation. Essentially you can make an empty class with a number of publicly defined variables. For example if I created a new class as such:
public classTTX_POJO {
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public int customer_id;
      <font color="#660000">public </font>String customer_name;
Now, I can use this class to design a Crystal Report. In the report designer you will see a new table (in this cased called TTX_POJO) with 2 Fields (int and String). This will serve the same purpose as a TTX which is to get the meta-data into the report.
Now at runtime, I can pass in a Resultset which returns the same meta-data, as in the following SQL query:
*"SELECT CUSTOMER_ID,CUSTOMER_NAME FROM APP.CUSTOMER WHERE COUNTRY = 'Australia'" *
Anyway, if you need more information on creating reports off of POJOs you can watch the following video tutorial:
*http://diamond.businessobjects.com/node/426*
Regards,
Sean Johnson (CR4E Product Manager)
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