Customized reporting in Crystal reports 2008

Hi guys,
I am using crystal reports 2008 and new to it. Can somebody tell me how can i provide customized reporting in this version? I want to give report design in end user's hand.
Can somebody help me on this?

Crystal Reports is fine for end users if they have any inclination for thinking logically and have a good knowledge of the underlying data. In my experience, that's not always (ever?? :->) the case.
As an alternative, there have been recent (less than a month ago, IIRC) posts asking about how to have user-selectable columns in a report. Search this forum for some possible suggestions on how to achieve this result. In this scenario, you create the logic for the report, then there are one or more parameters where the user can select which columns they want to see.
HTH,
Carl

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Since a couple of days, i can no longer access the field explorer nor the report exlorer. Anything else seems to be working fine. I first thought these windows were somewhere hidden behind another window but as much as i searched, i didnt succed in finding them :-(. Our product has a valid licence and is registered, by the way.
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I think the frustration is coming more from the combination of lack of support for x64 (quite surprising for such an established product) combined with a site that's very difficult to navigate and use (the BusinessObjects site).
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To be concise, your posted solution is not really a solution unless a number of other assumptions are true that we all know in practical terms to be unrealistic for anything but the simplest of apps.
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Thanks for the quick reply!
1) Exact version of Crystal Reports. (Open Crystal Developer. Go to Help> About Crystal Reports).
12.0.0.683
Type: Full
2) What happens if you export the report to PDF format from the standalone Crystal Reports Designer?
Same result. The entry shows up as giberish in the report designer preview...however, by doing this I stumbled upon something. See below
3) Are you able to export the report to other formats without any issue?
See Note below
NOTE:
In another part of the report, I just put the fields in question directly in the report (that is, not embedded in a text object). That part of the report when run produces the correct non-gibberish, properly rendered Japanese result (in the CR designer preview). The same field, however, when embedded in a text object, results in the gibberish being shown in the designer preview as well.
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Exporting to any other format (tried xls, rtf and html) results in correct rendering for the field not embedded in the text object and incorrect rendering for the field embedded in a text object.
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2014-6-2 8:30:56.348    57208    .\qecommon.cpp    117     File Name: ".\QEQueryInfo.cpp". Line: 916    1
2014-6-2 8:30:56.348    57208    .\QERowset.cpp    1184    Beginning CQERowset::readFirstRecord    20
2014-6-2 8:30:56.348    57208    .\QERowset.cpp    2149    Beginning CQERowset::restart    20
2014-6-2 8:30:56.348    57208    .\QERowset.cpp    2370    Beginning CQERowset::execute    20
2014-6-2 8:30:56.353    57208    .\DbQueryBuilder.cpp    514    Query Targets: sqlncli10, ODBC3SQLServer    10
2014-6-2 8:30:56.353    57208    .\DbQueryBuilder.cpp    525    Successfully built query:    SELECT "Orders"."Customer ID", "Orders"."Employee ID"   FROM   "xtreme"."dbo"."Orders" "Orders"    10
2014-6-2 8:30:56.353    57208    .\odbcapi.cpp    875    Beginning COdbcapi::ExecDirect    20
2014-6-2 8:30:56.354    57208    .\odbcapi.cpp    884    Finishing COdbcapi::ExecDirect    20
2014-6-2 8:30:56.354    57208    .\rowset.cpp    220    SQLExecDirect succeeded: SELECT "Orders"."Customer ID", "Orders"."Employee ID" FROM   "xtreme"."dbo"."Orders" "Orders"    10
2014-6-2 8:30:56.354    57208    .\QERowset.cpp    2814    bindToField succeeded: Orders.Customer ID is using client buffer    10
2014-6-2 8:30:56.354    57208    .\QERowset.cpp    2814    bindToField succeeded: Orders.Employee ID is using client buffer    10
Notice it doesn't try to connect first if I set the log on info first using code.
So nothing we can do to stop SQL server from logging this info. Check with the DBA, possibly they can "filter" out the application attempts to connect or change your work flow in the app.
If you have a Preview Button to view the report then simply add your Database log on info prompt there if Connectioninfo.Trusted is not true:
mainSecureDB = rpt.Database.Tables[tableIndex].LogOnInfo.ConnectionInfo.IntegratedSecurity;
if mainSecureDB = false then prompt the user for log on info and set accordingly, if it is true the it should not fail when it connects.
This is simply a matter of changing your App work flow...
Thanks
Don

Crystal Reports 2008 - Error setting new datasource location

Hi All,
We are experiencing an issue while trying to set datasource location for our RM 3.0 reports in Crystal Reports 2008 designer. As per guide "SAP BusinessObjects Process Control 3.0 and Risk Management 3.0 - How to build and Personalize Custom Crystal Reports" (step 11), after opening the desire report we go to DataBase-->Set DataSource Location and when selecting our RM system (which actually has the BI content addon installed on it), we got the following error message:
"Some tables could not be replaced, as no match was found in the new data source. Please verify the table required for any unmodified tables"
I'm new on this so I'm not sure if the table indicated in the original datasource should exist in my DB (new datasource) before doing this? If so, how those tables are imported or created in our DB?
Could you please help me on this issue?
Please let me know if any other detail or data is required.
Regards

Hi Don,
Thanks for the update.
Actually I've installed SAP Integration Kit and its Fixpack in both....BOE Server (which is the same as the SAP server) and in client pc. In all cases we have select a typical installation which supposes the required drivers are available. Also I've followed Ingo's documentation to activate and publish standard Risk Management reports (RM reports). Everything works ok with them. We are able to access reports through the application.
The issue appears when trying to customize one of these standard reports through CR Designer. For example if we select the "GRRM_Risk_by_Risk_Category" and try to customize it as indicated in the "SAP BusinessObjects Process Control 3.0 and Risk Management 3.0 - How to build and Personalize Custom Crystal Reports"...the table behind this report (table GRFN_CY_API_GRRM_R1) it's not in our RM System. My main concern or question is regarding this....Did I miss something while importing transports files, activating or publishing RM reports, etc....and thatu2019s the reason why this (and any other) table is not already in my system? I was not able to find where those tables are supposed to be or how they should be imported in my system. The odd thing is...that we are trying to customize and set the new data source for these reports to the same system from where they are being opened. Put in this way...RM reports have been activated in system A (RM System) and published to system B (BOE System). While customizing reports through CR Designer...we are actually opening reports from system A. These reports have as their original data source...a demo SAP system info (uxcir1p.wdf.sap.corp) and when we want to update this data source with our RM system....the error appears. The whole process is explained in the above mentioned guide for your reference.
Hope being clear enough..
Thanks for your help

Crystal Reports 2008 can't access R/3 queries

Hi there,
My company is in the middle of SAP implementation and our go-live is in 2 months. We don't have a BW system in place and are (for the most part) using the Standard SAP Reports available out of the box to facilitate the requirements of the different business users. But as we all know, there are always some reports that require customization. So, for that we decided to use Crystal Report 2008 (ver. 12.3.0.601) to design custom reports while accessing data from the Standard SAP Tables. I am able to access the Standard SAP Tables in R/3 (built on Oracle database) and the fields in those tables from the Crystal Report 2008 Database Expert option and have created an A/R Aging Report successfully. However, while working on my second report (GL Journal Entry By Invoice#) I am struggling to maintain and improve the query execution time since I am accessing data from huge standard FI-CO tables (BSEG, BSID, BSAD). Our 3rd party implementation team has already designed a custom report in R/3 that is available in all the clients using the T-Code in NetWeaver for the end users but it's missing some fields that the end users would need for go-live and it's not possible to ask the 3rd party implementation team to make the needed changes to the already customized report (for whatever reasons). And, that's why, I am asked to customize this report in Crystal. I suspect the execution time is so bad in Crystal because of lack of filtering of the data when I am pointing at the huge Standard Tables. I would have added some SQL clause and filters to bring in only the required fields from the table into the Crystal environment but I don't have that option since the R/3 system is sitting on Oracle. I have couple questions:
1) Would it be advantageous to build the custom Crystal Report on top the custom R/3 report that is already in place since in the R/3 report I can create a default variant with the conditions I want and it gets executed every time I call it in Crystal giving me only the data I am interested in? And, is it even possible?
2) Why am I not able to see the R/3 custom report from the Database Expert option even though the report is accessible from NetWeaver? I am able to access all the Standard SAP Tables from Database Expert in Crystal 2008.
And I forgot to add, we don't have an ABAP expert in house to create ABAP function modules that might help me filter the data in the R/3 system.
Is there any suggestions that will get the job done? Am I doing anything wrong here?
Sorry for the long story but I wanted to give you guys a full background of the issue.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
-RBora

RohitBora wrote:
Hi there,
> My company is in the middle of SAP implementation and our go-live is in 2 months. We don't have a BW system in place and are (for the most part) using the Standard SAP Reports available out of the box to facilitate the requirements of the different business users. But as we all know, there are always some reports that require customization. So, for that we decided to use Crystal Report 2008 (ver. 12.3.0.601) to design custom reports while accessing data from the Standard SAP Tables. I am able to access the Standard SAP Tables in R/3 (built on Oracle database) and the fields in those tables from the Crystal Report 2008 Database Expert option and have created an A/R Aging Report successfully. However, while working on my second report (GL Journal Entry By Invoice#) I am struggling to maintain and improve the query execution time since I am accessing data from huge standard FI-CO tables (BSEG, BSID, BSAD). Our 3rd party implementation team has already designed a custom report in R/3 that is available in all the clients using the T-Code in NetWeaver for the end users but it's missing some fields that the end users would need for go-live and it's not possible to ask the 3rd party implementation team to make the needed changes to the already customized report (for whatever reasons). And, that's why, I am asked to customize this report in Crystal. I suspect the execution time is so bad in Crystal because of lack of filtering of the data when I am pointing at the huge Standard Tables. I would have added some SQL clause and filters to bring in only the required fields from the table into the Crystal environment but I don't have that option since the R/3 system is sitting on Oracle. I have couple questions:
>
> 1) Would it be advantageous to build the custom Crystal Report on top the custom R/3 report that is already in place since in the R/3 report I can create a default variant with the conditions I want and it gets executed every time I call it in Crystal giving me only the data I am interested in? And, is it even possible?
No - this is not possible; you can only report in Crystal against ECC tables, ABAP functions, and SAP Query/Infosets
> 2) Why am I not able to see the R/3 custom report from the Database Expert option even though the report is accessible from NetWeaver? I am able to access all the Standard SAP Tables from Database Expert in Crystal 2008.
ABAP Reports are not a datasource in Crystal
>
> And I forgot to add, we don't have an ABAP expert in house to create ABAP function modules that might help me filter the data in the R/3 system.
> Is there any suggestions that will get the job done? Am I doing anything wrong here?
> Sorry for the long story but I wanted to give you guys a full background of the issue.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> -RBora
Hello,
Those are some big tables to be reporting against in Crystal
Have you considered creating an InfoSet using logical database BRM (Financial Documents) that could then be used to report against Crystal?
We do use Crystal / SAP Query against the logical database BRM as an InfoSet and so far we haven't seen the performance issues you are describing.
Also, have you considered upgrading to Crystal Reports 2011? Not sure that it would help the performance issues you are describing.
Regards,
Tammy

For PrintControl.cab in crystal reports 2008 How can i configure Web.config in VS2005

hi, Now i am using crystal report 2008 evalution with VS2005. In my ASP.net Application Viewiing reports using Crystalreportviewer PrintMode=ActiveX (not in PDF).If i am trying to print using Printcontrol.cab..in the client machine the activeX control is not installing in client. Its works good with crystal report bundle with 2005. with crystal report 2008 its not working. I want to know how i configuer web.config and others. Help me Pls.
Instead of these code
<configSections>
<sectionGroup name="businessObjects">
    <sectionGroup name="crystalReports">
      <section name="printControl" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089, Custom=null" />
    </sectionGroup>
</sectionGroup>
</configSections>
<businessObjects>
<crystalReports>
    <printControl>
      <add key="url" value="http://myserver/PrintControl.cab" />
    </printControl>
</crystalReports>
</businessObjects>
new version=??? Publictokenkey=?????
Thank u in advance

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