Cross Tab Limitations?

I am using Crystal 2008 SP1. Is there a limitations on the amount of rows or the amount of records you can sum up in a cross tab?
Meaning 6 million records summed into 1 row. Or having 6 million rows. As extreme examples.

Please re-post if this is still an issue or purchase a case and have a dedicated support engineer work with you directly.
I would suggest doing this server side and let the Server tally the data. Much more efficient than have Cr do it.

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Limiting Columns in Cross Tab reports

Plz tell me how to limit columns in Cross Tab.I have many columns which go on and even are not visible for Scroll and neither in another page
Plz help.

Check if http://winrichman.blogspot.com/2009/05/cross-tab-by-limiting-number-of-colums.html is helpful

Is there a limit to no. of summary fields that can be used in a cross tab?

Hi,
While creating a cross tab is there a limitation to number of summarized fields that can be used?
- The cross tab when uses 184 fields as summary fields leads to Crystal report application to crash at the time of export to excel.
- Tried with two Datasources: XML and excel
- If we reduce the number of summary fields used to 102 exactly, export works fine in excel.
- If 2 cross tabs are used each containing 92 summary fields(in order to show 184) export to excel works fine.
Please let me know if there is any such limitation which leads to CR application to crash when exporting in excel?
Thanks
Regards,
Nidhi

I suggest you purchase a case and have a dedicated support engineer work with you directly:
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Or
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If this is a bug you'll get a refund, if not post your enhancement request in the Idea Place. Or the Rep will suggest a better way to create your report.

Rows limit in Cross Tab

I receive this message "The numbers of rows or columns exceeds its limit,65535" although it reads more 100,000 records but does not shows
Can anybody help please.
Regds
Basil

Hi Basil
Cross tabs have a limitation on the amount of rows and/or columns that can be displayed within the cross tab object. This limitation is 65,535.
To work around this limitation, use grouping within the cross tab to limit the amount of rows/columns displayed.
Regards
Girish Bhosale

SAP Crystal Report - Formula in Cross Tab Report

I have a below requirement in a cross tab report,
Category          Name          Valu1          Value2    %ge
A                       Car               40                  50        80
A                        Bike             30                  60        50
Total                                       70               110     63.6
%ge is a formula field and is calculated as value1/value2 * 100
Consider the Total section as a group footer.
In the cross tab report how do I put the formula field for %ge in Total section.

Vishujain
Crosstabs are very structured and you are limited in what you can do with them. You can do a percentage summary in Crosstabs, but only as a percentage of the row total or the percentage of the column total. You cannot put a formula in the crosstab to do a percentage of a values in seperate rows. Any time I need to perform a function not available in a crosstab, I do a manual cross tab. Look at: [Manual Crosstab Explaination|Re: Formulas : Help for coding]
Debi
Edited by: Debi Herbert on Nov 3, 2011 11:51 AM

How to display recordnumber for each row in cross tab?

Hi.. I am using Crystal Report XI,with the database Microsoft SQL Server. I have 2 questions regarding Cross Tab.1. How to limiting record per row and per column in Cross Tab? For example,at one page the report printing 20 records per row and 7 records per columns.2. I would like to display recordnumber for each row that printing in Cross tab. How crystal reports can handle this?Can anyone can help me out on this? Please kindly advise.AN 

Dear Kathryn, I did used DisplayString as suggested by you. The result work fine until I add more data to this cross tab. I used this formula : global numbervar pager;recordnumber();pager := pager + 1; if pager > 0 then totext(pager - 1,0) The result come out in decending order for each row. SN Name 5 abc 4 def3 fig 2 klm 1 opq Is that anything wrong with my formula? Please kindly advise.-AN-

Hide duplicate rows in Cross Tab report

where can i find the option to hide duplicate rows in cross tab report..?

Is it a limitation with crosstab report..?
Ok, here's the issue i have a crosstab report and its based on a VIEW.
the data duplicates based on created_by and last_updated_by columns as I'm not using these columns in the report.
any ideas or workarounds to avoid duplicates....?
Thanks!

Cross tab direction

Hi friends
I want your help in how to change the direction of the cross-tab crystal report to make it suitable for right-to-left languages. When I created a cross-tab report it looks like :-
            option1 option2 option3
row-1    XXXX      XXXx     XXXX
row-2    XXXX      XXXx     XXXX
but in my case I want the report to be like this:-
option1 option2 option3
XXXX      XXXx     XXXX       row-1
XXXX      XXXx     XXXX       row-2
Please help me

Hi Hamzah,
Sorry I should have caught this before suggesting to post here... Crosstabs are limited functionality, always has been. I'll move your post to the report Design forum but I don't believe this will work.
Add your request to the[ Idea Place|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/idea-place] and the PM's for Cr will look at it. If it gets enough votes they will add the ability.
Thanks
Don

Cross Tab Size and Formatting

Good Day To All,
I have 3 Cross tab that fit perfectly on one page, but when it was created the user used an incorrect field as its columns.
When I change the column field to the correct field the Cross-Tab increases in size shifting the last cross tab to another page.
How can I keep the original size. I've tried To lock position and size but that does not work. I also tried using format painter but that only works on fonts size. I am unable to re-size the cross tab in design mode. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards,
David

hi David,
unfortunately there are no properties in a cross-tab to keep it the same overall width if the number of column instances changes. the Size and Position dialogues for Width and Horizontal Position (X) also do not apply to cross-tabs.
the only thing that you can do is to decrease the width of the column cell and if the output no longer fits in the width of the cell then you'll also need to decrease the font size.
there is another workaround by limiting the number of records returned to a group. please see my blog post here in particular the section "Formatting a Cross-tab to Have N Rows & M Columns". this is not an easy task either as the data coming in must be a precise match for the number of rows X the number columns that are required. this is explained further in the blog.
-jamie

Cross tab reports

I have created a report in Crystal and on top of the report there's a cross tab report. Why isn't all the info from the report pulling into the cross tab report?

Voraresh,
There could be many reasons. Do you have any parameters that are limiting you data? Is the Crosstab in the
page header or footer, or in a group?
If you create a plain report, "no crosstab" put a field in the details and run, how many records do you get?
Now go back to the Crosstab and run, how many records do you get?
If the numbers are different, my assumption is you have a filter, or a parameter that is not allowing the data to show,
or your Crosstab is based on a field that is occasionaly a null.

Convert cross tab with 2 summarized fields to a chart

Greetings,
I have a simple cross tab containing a date row and 2 summarized fields. It looks like this (see Figure 1)
When I convert (insert) my cross tab into a stacked bar chart, I only get one of the summarized fields to show up on the chart. It looks like this (Figure 2)
Is there a way for me convert this cross tab into a stacked chart so that both of my summary fields appear?
Many Thanks!

OK... Thank you.
I was using the cross tab in hopes of controlling graph labels for months (Customize Group Name field) . What I was doing was converting dates to month verbiage (Sep, Oct, Nov, etc) so that the month verbiage would appear on my graphs instead of the numbers while still maintaining proper calendar order . (thanks for showing me this technique by the way as it works great). Too bad it does not work when there is more than one summary field (thanks for explaining its limitations... I had not told you that I was adding a second summary field).
Given that I have 1 row ( Date_discharge) that I need to display as months (verbiage) in calendar order
and
Given that there are 2 summary fields: Vaccine Indicator (a sum) and Birth_date_Baby (a count) ...
(I am contrasting # of vaccine's given against total babies per month in a monthly stacked bar chart)
Is there a way to display 2 summary fields on a stacked bar graph grouped by month (where the month is listed in alpha format, (Sep, Oct, Nov, etc.) but still sorted by its calendar value? My initial attempts to do this in a graph (without a cross-tab) would display the month verbiage just fine, but it would order my months alphabetically.
Thanks again for your suggestions!

Cross tab query dynamically.

Hi,
i want to do crosstab in my query. but the data was not static its dynamic.
CREATE TABLE ABTEST
SEC_ID      NUMBER,
MONYEAR     VARCHAR2(10 BYTE),
NUM         NUMBER
SET DEFINE OFF;
Insert into ABTEST
WHERE
   (SEC_ID, MONYEAR, NUM)
Values
   (91, '200802', 13);
Insert into ABTEST
WHERE
   (SEC_ID, MONYEAR, NUM)
Values
   (91, '200803', 25);
Insert into ABTEST
WHERE
   (SEC_ID, MONYEAR, NUM)
Values
   (91, '200804', 26);
Insert into ABTEST
WHERE
   (SEC_ID, MONYEAR, NUM)
Values
   (91, '200805', 13);
Insert into ABTEST
WHERE
   (SEC_ID, MONYEAR, NUM)
Values
   (91, '200806', 10);
Insert into ABTEST
WHERE
   (SEC_ID, MONYEAR, NUM)
Values
   (91, '200807', 11);
Insert into ABTEST
WHERE
   (SEC_ID, MONYEAR, NUM)
Values
   (91, '200808', 5);
Insert into ABTEST
WHERE
   (SEC_ID, MONYEAR, NUM)
Values
   (91, '200809', 14);
Insert into ABTEST
WHERE
   (SEC_ID, MONYEAR, NUM)
Values
   (91, '200810', 17);
Insert into ABTEST
WHERE
   (SEC_ID, MONYEAR, NUM)
Values
   (91, '200811', 12);
Insert into ABTEST
WHERE
   (SEC_ID, MONYEAR, NUM)
Values
   (91, '200812', 12);
COMMIT;
Currently it looks like below.
SEC_ID     MONYEAR     NUM
91     200802     13
91     200803     25
91     200804     26
91     200805     13
91     200806     10
91     200807     11
91     200808     5
91     200809     14
91     200810     17
91     200811     12
91     200812     12
I want to display the data like below.
sec_id 200802 ........200812
91      13                12is there any can we do that by sql query or procedure. The dates are not limited its dynamic.
Please help meout.
Thanks & Regards,
Venkat.

Hi,
The number of columns has to be hard-coded.
If you don't know the number of columns until run-time, then you have to use dynamic SQL where, at run-time, you figure out how many columns are needed and write that many columns.
See the script below for one way of doing that in SQL*Plus.
How to Pivot a Table with a Dynamic Number of Columns
This works in any version of Oracle
The "SELECT ... PIVOT" feature introduced in Oracle 11
is much better for producing XML output.
Say you want to make a cross-tab output of
the scott.emp table.
Each row will represent a department.
There will be a separate column for each job.
Each cell will contain the number of employees in
     a specific department having a specific job.
The exact same solution must work with any number
of departments and columns.
(Within reason: there's no guarantee this will work if you
want 2000 columns.)
Case 0 "Basic Pivot" shows how you might hard-code three
job types, which is exactly what you DON'T want to do.
Case 1 "Dynamic Pivot" shows how get the right results
dynamically, using SQL*Plus.
(This can be easily adapted to PL/SQL or other tools.)
PROMPT     ========== 0. Basic Pivot ==========
SELECT     deptno
,     COUNT (CASE WHEN job = 'ANALYST' THEN 1 END)     AS analyst_cnt
,     COUNT (CASE WHEN job = 'CLERK'   THEN 1 END)     AS clerk_cnt
,     COUNT (CASE WHEN job = 'MANAGER' THEN 1 END)     AS manager_cnt
FROM     scott.emp
WHERE     job     IN ('ANALYST', 'CLERK', 'MANAGER')
GROUP BY     deptno
ORDER BY     deptno
PROMPT     ========== 1. Dynamic Pivot ==========
--     ***** Start of dynamic_pivot.sql *****
-- Suppress SQL*Plus features that interfere with raw output
SET     FEEDBACK     OFF
SET     PAGESIZE     0
SPOOL     p:\sql\cookbook\dynamic_pivot_subscript.sql
SELECT     DISTINCT
     ',     COUNT (CASE WHEN job = '''
||     job
||     ''' '     AS txt1
,     'THEN 1 END)     AS '
||     job
||     '_CNT'     AS txt2
FROM     scott.emp
ORDER BY     txt1;
SPOOL     OFF
-- Restore SQL*Plus features suppressed earlier
SET     FEEDBACK     ON
SET     PAGESIZE     50
SPOOL     p:\sql\cookbook\dynamic_pivot.lst
SELECT     deptno
@@dynamic_pivot_subscript
FROM     scott.emp
GROUP BY     deptno
ORDER BY     deptno
SPOOL     OFF
--     ***** End of dynamic_pivot.sql *****
EXPLANATION:
The basic pivot assumes you know the number of distinct jobs,
and the name of each one. If you do, then writing a pivot query
is simply a matter of writing the correct number of ", COUNT ... AS ..."\
lines, with the name entered in two places on each one. That is easily
done by a preliminary query, which uses SPOOL to write a sub-script
(called dynamic_pivot_subscript.sql in this example).
The main script invokes this sub-script at the proper point.
In practice, .SQL scripts usually contain one or more complete
statements, but there's nothing that says they have to.
This one contains just a fragment from the middle of a SELECT statement.
Before creating the sub-script, turn off SQL*Plus features that are
designed to help humans read the output (such as headings and
feedback messages like "7 rows selected.", since we do not want these
to appear in the sub-script.
Turn these features on again before running the main query.
*/

Behavior of cross tab in iPhone vs. iPad

Hey all, I was just doing some testing with cross tabs in both iPhone and iPad in both Safari and the BO 5.1 Mobile app.
What I found is this
- You cannot scroll in a cross tab on iPhone, iPad works fine
- You cannot select a row on iPhone, iPad works fine
This seems a little limiting, as the OnSelect action cannot be invoked and its not possible to show more than X number of rows in a cross tab. I am trying to build a sort of lookup application for accessing Master Data, like an item lookup - and you can't really do that on an iPhone if you could have variable number of records/need to scroll.
Anyone else come across this?
Regards,
Justin

Hi Justin,
Per page 29 of the SAP Help, crosstabs are not supported on iPhone
See http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/AAD12/en/ds12SP01_user_en.pdf
"When creating mobile analysis applications for an iPhone, note the following SAP recommendations:
● Keep the applications simple and do not use too many components.
● Only create applications based on the predefined templates for iPhones (do not use the blank template for iPhones). In the New Application dialog box, select iPhone as the target device. In the next step, select a predefined iPhone template (for example, iPhone Template 1).
● Do not use crosstab components for iPhone applications as this is not supported by SAP.
● Only design iPhone applications in portrait format. Landscape orientation is not supported when running the application in the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile solution."
Tammy

Suppressing levels in cross tab.

Hello All,
I have a project requirenment for one of the client and currently using CR 2008 for creating dynamic reports based on a finance database for profitabilty Analysis. I have been using lot of Web-Elements functionality in my crystal application and its going good to an extent, the only issue i have been experiencing is the dynamic change of the cross tab data based on prompts.
Its a 4 level application where in users are prompted to select a specific level outta the 4 levels, they can select either few or all. Now, the issue is, in my cross tab i have mentioned all the 4 levels in my row field and the data is displayed according to the users selection through prompts, it works fine. But however if user does not select level 3 or 4 or any one of them then the specific cross tab row is displayed empty. I have tried selecting the option suppress empty rows under customize tab but that doesnt seem to work.
I want only those levels to be displayed which are selected by users and suppress the rest, the empty rows in cross tab looks kinda odd to see. I am unable to figure out the formula string for the same.
Any help will be appreciated. Thank you

Hi
Cross tab is nothing but a tabular representation of data.
It displays zero values only when there is no data for the combination of corresponding row and column.
We can not suppress this however we can display some string like "No data for this" or something else as per requirement.
For this, do the below:
- Right click on the summary value field on the cross tab -> Format Field.
- Under Common Tab, click on X-2 for Display string. This would open the formula editor.
- Put the below formula there:
if IsNull(summary database field) then "No data for here"
else "" & currentfieldvalue;
You can change the display string as per requirement.
Hope this helps!!
Regards
Sourashree

"Can Grow" property on Cross-Tab object can not be unlock

I am using Crystal Reports XI. My report uses a Cross-Tab object via SQL server. I am having problem making my data column (Field Row) to increase dynamically in height when my data size increases. Since the "Can Grow" property in the Format Editor is locked, it would not let me set the "Can Grow" to true to enable this function. How do I unlock the "Can Grow" function so I can set it to true?

The only other option I can think of would be to build a virtual cross tab, but in many cases, especially when the number of 'column' values is dynamic, this is not possible.

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