Crystal Report Issues

Hi Experts,
1)  When creating new report, I normally go thru wizards and add multiple tables to my report. The report seems fine when I preview in SBO 8.8 After working on my report, I sometimes need to add extra tables for my report. I select 'Database Expert' and tried to add the extra table (share common fields with existing tables) to my report. CR issue a warning 'more than one db driver been used'. I then update datasource location. When I preview the report, all the fields are blank. So, what's the ideal way to add extra tables to CR when you are half way thru the designing process?
2) Hyperlinks work fine in CR viewer. However, after I export to Excel or PDF, they don't work. It gives me error 'cannot locate internet server'. The hyperlink in Excel looks like 'http://$b1$/link?table=OCRD&key=C90099'. I do have SBO open at the same time. I am hoping when I click the hyperlink in Excel, the SBO window will pop out. Is it possible?

Hello,
What is SBO 8.8? The errors/no data is due to linking, your original data source is using say for example ODBC and your second connection is using OLE DB and therefore 2 DB connections and thus no links between then so no data returned.
If SBO is a classic SAP problem with Crystal Reports installed then you likely need to post your question to the SAP Integration Kit forum.
One question per post.
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