Excel Datasource for Crystal Reports - BO Enterprise on Linux

Hi,
i've developed a report, which uses data from sap query and from an excel file (.xls). I copied the excel file to the BO-server (the user bo has rights on this path) and publish the report. But when i start the report, comes the error "could not read database information".
Our BOE is XI 3.1 SP 3 and we use Crystal Reports 2008. BOE runs on a SLES. Is it possible to uses Excel-Datasources in this case? If it is possible, what have i to do?
thanks & regards
Daniel

Hi Daniel,
It is not supported in Linux. You can check the Supported Platforms documents for this platform. It is only available for Windows platform.
Regards,
Julian

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