Modifying a Crystal Report from a 3rd party

We use a Enterprise software that has embedded crystal reports that you can run within the software. However, we need to modify a few of these reports, add some fields and such. Their reports folder has all of the .rpt files and I can open the files just fine. However, to add any fields I have to create a connection to our instance of their database to add the fields. The report will run fine in Crystal but once I try to run it through the enterprise software, the report dies out.
How do I modify the report using our instance of the database but then save the new .rpt in such a way where it will use the DB connection information in the software? Essentially I want a database agnostic .rpt file.
I tried searching through the forums but I didn't see anything along these lines, but I may have not been using the right terminology during search.

Thanks for the info and the report and confirming they are OK with you doing this....
The report also uses a subreport against the tables directly. They both use an ODBC DSN using the MS SQL Server default SA account.
So you need to create your DSN using the same log on info, User name is "sa" but Cr does not keep the password so you need to find that out. Once you get the ODBC System DSN created on your PC then you can add the fields as required and run the report to verify it all works.
Next question you mentioned an Enterprise software to run the report. Is this Crystal Reports or BusinessObejcts Enterprise software or is that their program also? If it is ours then you can publish the report from Crystal Report Designer logging in as Administrator and then allow users to access it. Set the log on info for the report properties also and it all should work.
If it's not BOE or CRE then you'll again have to ask them how to get these updated reprots into their Enterprsie software.
Thank you
Don

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