Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, or Net Weaver?

I am putting togeher a plan to create better reporting for a 50 seat user deployment that currently has SAP BW deployed.
Netweaver is up and running, but is clugey. I heard Crystal Reports is easier to work with. I also heard Web Intelligence allows more end-user capabilities, like querying. I expect our users to really hit the system hard once properly trained.
Thoughts?

Hi Jeff,
what kind of reporting are you looking to dpeloy ?
Crystal Reports is Enterprise reporting type and Web Intelligence is an Ad-Hoc reporting tool.
let me know what you looking for
Ingo Hilgefort
Business Objects

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I just wanted to know about the Crystal to Web Intelligence Migraton.
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Or do we need to redsign report in WebI

Hi Kuldeep,
Its not necessary to redesign reports.We can publish those reports in BOXIR2.
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Our customer has some reports defined in Crystal Reports XI.
Is it possible to change / port / convert a RPT (Crystal Reports) file to a REP (Web Intelligence Reporter) file?
They are currently on Web Intelligence 6.5 but moving to XI R2.
Thanks very much in advance.
Edited by: Paul Band on Sep 8, 2008 4:20 PM

Hi Paul,
Report Conversion tool is used to convert Deski to webi. However the option to convert Crystal to Webi is not available.
In case if more details are required regarding the Report conversion Tool, please download the RCT guide from the below link:
http://technicalsupport.businessobjects.com/KanisaSupportSite/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=xir2reportconversiontoolenpdf&sliceId=&dialogID=25464252&stateId=1%200%2025430943
Regards
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The application that I am working on is passing a parameter which contains user data like section numbers....
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It works without any error in the actual crystal report developer.
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I'm having an issue with Bex Query structures and nulls. I've built a Crystal Report against a Bex query that uses a Bex Query structure. The structure looks like the following
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Hi,
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ingo

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Hello all,
I am trying to design a Crystal Report (using CR XI 2 and/or CR 2008) and using a web service as a data source. I've developed the web service in .NET and have control over the IIS directory it is hosted on. I've set the authentication for the folder with "Anonymous Access" turned off and Integrated Windows Authentication.
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The problem I am having is after setting up my connection in Crystal Designer, when I click preview, I am getting an unauthorized (401) error.
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Nope, nothing yet. The problem seems to be that Crystal doesn't currently allow SSO or the SSO credentials to be passed through to IIS. Therefore, IIS never gets any security tokens for validation. Maybe you can do this with an SDK? I don't know.
The only half solutions I can think of are:
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Best regards,
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Hello Jon
Some thoughts on the issue:
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Hi Katie,
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Hi All,
First of all thank you verymuch for solving my earlier doubts.
Can you pls answer the following as i am facing these questions while attending interviews. I would appreciate you all.
1) How can i use dynamic prompt in crystal reports likewise in WebI. Can you explain with step by step process.
2) How can i hide a complete column in webi (richclient/infoview)
3) In crystal reports Can we create report using more than one database?
4) In crystal reports Can we use our own SQL for creating a report instead of dragging and dropping the objects. can you please explain with an example
5) Is there a way to export the report formulas, like totals to excel? in crystal reports.
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8) In crystal reports how can i create prompts static and dynamic prompts (I tried to use parameter fields but i am not getting the data source fields under options)

Hi,
1) How can i use dynamic prompt in crystal reports likewise in WebI. Can you explain with step by step process.
Please go through by below link.
http://www.infosol.com/buildpage.aspx?k=cr_tt02
2) How can i hide a complete column in webi (richclient/infoview)
Unchecked the auto height and width box.Set the column width 4px.Change the border color as white or remove border.
And if you are hiding column in middle of table then adjust border accordingly.
3) In crystal reports Can we create report using more than one database?
Yes you can use multiple database in the one report.
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We have a VB6 application that uses Crystal Reports 9 and makes a call to DB2. When we patched the Windows 2003 server it runs on to Dot Net 2 SP2, the call to DB2 would hang. If we removed the patch, the problem goes away. Microsoft said this is a Crystal issue not a dot net issue so they referred me to this site. Has anyone seen anything like this or have any suggestions as to how to get around this? Our Infrastructure Admins would like to get Dot Net 2 SP2 on ths server so I can't leave it unpatched indefintiely. Thanks

Hi Brian,
Moved your post to the Legacy SDK forum.
Which report engine are you using in your app?
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What error do you get?
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I have a question about Web Elements. In description of them on SAP site it says they can provide "write-backs to the database". This is something I would really like to see. I have a scenario:
User sees a long report and sometimes she needs to add a quick note that should be saved into the database. That note can be entered into WETextArea I suppose and WESubmit button click can be an event trigger for such a write back.
I would like to see example of such functionality on Crystal Report rpt file.
Please advise if anybody knows, I would highly appreciate your assistance.
Regards, Grettir

hello,
webelements can be used for the interface to database writebacks...they don't do the writebacks themselves but create the interface to make it easier for an end user to add annotations etc...these values are then passed to a second report or a subreport. using the default prompting interface makes this quite difficult.
here's where the database writebacks are done...since version 9 of crystal reports there have been command objects. command objects have the ability to use any database syntax that is compliant with the database connection. i.e. if the syntax can go through the odbc layer then you can do this in a command in crystal reports.
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i hope that this helps,
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Crystal-config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<crystal-configuration>
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CrystalReportEngine-config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><CrystalReportEngine-configuration>
<reportlocation>../..</reportlocation>
<timeout>10</timeout>
<keycode>A2960-01C00EA-00000YK</keycode></CrystalReportEngine-configuration>
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/WebContent/WEB-INF/classes/CrystalReportEngine-config.xml
/WebContent/crystalreportviewers10/
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Ismail.

Hi,
Yes I have copied all the far files into web-inf/lib directory. I think .jar files are not the problem. But I can try any proposal about this. Because I have to solve this problem.
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