Crystal Report Formula field function on OLAP SAP BI/BW Cube

Dear All
We create OLAP Cube Report in Crystal Report 2008 (BO) base SAP ( DB2) BI/BW Cube, Grid report coming correctly. Crystal Report Formula Field functionalities are not avilabel or suporting. If any one explain or some kind of documentation available pl. help me.
Thanks, in advance.
Alfred.M

Hi,
you are using the OLAP Grid which will only have limited functionality. You can use the BW MDX Driver and then connect to a BEx query and you will have the complete functionality in CR
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