Crystal Reports Capability

Hello everyone,
I need your help in order to know if Crystal Reports is the right solution for creating a Report with more than 50 tables related and more than 170 columns, many of them are financial ratios calculated! I was wondering if Crystal Reports has the capability for supporting this processing.
Thanks a lot for your help!
Best Regards!

It should be fine if you don't have any inline joins, unions or selection criteria against cascading left joined tables. That's a lot to ask, though, with that many tables. You might be better served writing SQL (view, command or stored procedure) and using the SQL object as the data source for your report.

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Is Crystal Reports capable of ad-hoc reporting? If so what of the myriad of products is the minimum that I would need to get started?

There are a few ways to get close to what you need. The easiest way is to use Crystal Reports for Eclipse which is the product that contains an embedded version of the Cystal Reports designer. This would allow users to design and connect the reports to datasources in a similar manner to Crystal Reports. It isn't a fully featured version of CR, more of a basic version. It will allow you to add charts, and you can open an already created template; the connectivity is limited to JDBC, JavaBeans, POJO classes, XML and Web Services.
You can also use the Crystal Report Java SDK to create your own adhoc pages that will allow you to perform the functionality you designer. The API will allow you to do nearly anything you can do within Crystal Reports.
The above downloads are can be obtained freely from the Crystal Reports for Eclipse portal on SDN. To distribute web applications internally, you do not require any additional licenses. To sell your application or to distribute it externally, you require a Developer Advantage license. See this link for more information about that:
http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/sme/reporting/eclipse/technicaldetails/index.epx
For more information about the SDK and Embedded Designer, have a look at the Crystal Reports for Eclipse 2.0 Developer Guide AND API reference documentation in the SDK Library, the Business Objects Portal, on http://www.sdn.sap.com .

CR2008 Not enough memory while exporting reports from Crystal Reports 2008

I have recently upgraded our Crystal Reports version from Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008 to Crystal Reports 2008. After upgradation I am facing the problem "Memory full.OtherErrorFailed to export the report. Not enough memory for operation" when I am trying to export the report from Crystal Reports 2008 Report viewer, or directly from the code behind. The application is hosted application. The problem occurs in our production environment.
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IIS: IIS 6
.Net Framework: 3.5
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Can someone help me resolve the issue.

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The machine has 2GB of physical memory with an 8GB pagefile with Windows 2003 (latest everything). The process runs up to about 1GB before reporting the memory full error.
We've also tried a variety of other suggestions posted in the other thread with no success.
We're happy to provide the RPT file to the Report Team to diagnose the problem. Ultimately, we need to be able to produce a 15 page report with approximately 45 images.
Our preferred scenario is fixing problem 2. The CR Designer seems quite capable of rendering our report and printing it to our third party PDF printer in a timely manner with small size. However, the API reports memory full.
The API resides in a dedicated reporting web service with NO other code except for loading the report, setting parameters and printing. When executing, it uses up to about 1.1GB before reporting the error.
Are there any other suggestions for fixing what we have? Are there known problems with large images in reports? Do we need to lodge a formal support request?
Regards, Grant.
PS. Grr and my message formatting is lost when I edited this message!!!
There is a 1500 character limit and then all formatting is removed to save space. Break you posts into separate entries.
Edited by: grantph on Sep 30, 2009 2:49 AM

SOAP Messaging Using Crystal Reports Web Services To Return Report in PDF or Excel Format

All,
I am trying to use SOAP messaging to fetch a Crystal Report through a Managed repository and getting back either a PDF or Excel file. For some reason, any reference to web services on this site I cannot access. Like thread, "Using Web Services on the Crystal Report Server XI to return reports". Can anyone point in a direction to Web Service Calls API documentation or does this not exist ?????? I would hope this product has this capability.
Thanks In Advance,
Tom

XI Release 2 Service Pack 2 introduced the Business Process BI Web Services, that allow you to retrieve reports using SOAP messaging.
It's documented here:
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I am confused as to what you are asking. You can align text boxes and lines/linear boxes using the grid in the report design tool just like other report objects. You can achieve some very crisp looking report designs this way. There are also tools available when you right-click one or more objects to size and/or align those objects within the page.
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Hi, Rodney;
I believe there was a known issue in the released version of CR 2008. Install the Service Pack 0 for CR 2008, that should take care of the issue.
https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100007528552008E/cr2008_sp0.zip
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I am doing this to determine if Crystal Reports 9 would be able to ulitize Office 2007.

Hello Don,
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CRVS2010 Beta - Problems with printing Crystal Reports for VS 2010

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Subject modified as per the sticky post at the top of this forum; [Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 Beta - read before posting|Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 Beta - read before posting;
Edited by: Ludek Uher on Oct 11, 2010 3:42 PM

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Trouble migrating Crystal Reports Custom Functions from BOXI R2 to BOXI 3.1

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Drill Down Arrow error in Crystal Report. Authorization Path

hi all,
i made a report in crystal report with drill down capability with the ff formula:
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pls see image below for the error display:
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii184/abing430/DrillDownArrowError.jpg
when i run the report in SBO the report display with no problem but when i click the drill down arrow it says "You are not permitted to perform this action : Authorization path". i am using the Manager account w/c is a super user.
pls. help.
thanks
Fidel

hi Gordon,
thanks for the reply.
now i use the ff. Formula as what u have instructed.
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this line does not returns an error in formula workshop but i still have the same error....
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Fidel

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Thanks for the help Ted
Works like a charm now.
Or atleast my very very simple XML report works.
Now I just need to play around and see what I can do and what I cant.
I just want to make sure I understand how this works.
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will find what I am looking for.
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Please re-post if this is still an issue to the Business Objects Forum or if you have a valid support contract create a case on line.
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quite of few bugs that will leave you shaking your fist at your
computer. If however you do continue and do the CF Report Builder
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I have to develop few reports. Most of the reports are like bar chart with count on Y axis (Vertical) and month of X axis(Horizontal). The report is very simple. Can some one please help me to understand if I should develop the report in Crystal or WebI. What is the advantage of one over the other?
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To provide charts, both WebI and Crystal can do the job. But besides the differentiation the other posters have already mentioned, there are a few more factors you need to consider.
WebI can easily be learned and used by business users. Crystal on the other hand requires some technical knowledge. The learning curve of Crystal report is steeper than WebI. That's why most WebI reports are developed by business analysts and most Crystal reports are normally developed by IT developers. Last but not least, the licensing of Crystal are typically more expensive than WebI.
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