New to Crystal Reports, Need Recommendations

Post Author: codyj
CA Forum: General
Hi everyone,
I am new to using Crystal Reports (XI Developer). I was hoping that someone can recommend books or websites that might help me get up to speed faster. I can create the simple reports already, I mainly need help with formulas and other more complex operations.
Thanks in advance!

Post Author: V361
CA Forum: General
http://kenhamady.com/
http://www.tek-tips.com/
http://www.codeguru.com/forum
along with this website as well.

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Hello Jeff
Mysterious for sure. When you say;
no virtual directory to crystalreportviewers115 and Crystal reports is not installed on the server (except for seeing only a few CR Dll's)...so how the heck did he get it working
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The car has no wheels, no engine, yet somehow it managed to get from point A to point B.
Sorry to say, but it ain't happening...
The only way to get a project that includes CR to work is to deploy the CR runtime. Either via MSI file where a simple double click will install the runtime and configure the viewer directory under the default app pool, or via a setup project you build using the CR MSM files. Again the files will be installed and the viewer directory configured under the default app pool. If your app is under a custom app pool, you need to configure the viewer folder under that pool as the install has no idea about non default app pools. See KB [ 1547124|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes_boj/sdn_oss_boj_bi/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/scn_bosap/notes%7B6163636573733d36393736354636443646363436353344333933393338323636393736354637333631373036453646373436353733354636453735364436323635373233443330333033303331333533343337333133323334%7D.do] for more details re. viewer configuration.
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Post Author: skyygirl12
CA Forum: General
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Post Author: dausa
CA Forum: Formula
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Post Author: Manuel de Kleine
CA Forum: Formula
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Post Author: trillium
CA Forum: General
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Post Author: GraemeG
CA Forum: General
I agree with SKodidine - check your joins and selections to make sure that all variations are taken care of. Here's a simplified version of one that I messed around with for ages when I started on CR:
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Post Author: sankallada
CA Forum: General
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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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Darren
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Hello, I actually have a question related to the following thread, so I posted there and was recommended to start a new thread:
Crystal Reports 2008 Excel Export Compatibility Patch?
Question is related to the following doc, specifically, is this patch still available for CR 2008 or not?:
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/cr2008V1/en/xi3_cr2008eecp_readme_en.pdf
A response from Don suggested this wasnt available for CR 2008 although this is confusing since the doc refers to CR 2008. My response was as follows and is essentially the question I still have (more so because we have another PeopleSoft/Oracle customer whos come across this doc and wants to know how to apply the fix for CR 2008). Thanks very much in advance!
Hi Don, I know this is an old thread, but Im also running into the same issue and am confused by your statement since the referenced PDF doc says this patch is available for CR 2008. Did you mean that the patch is no longer available or supported for CR 2008 for some reason? If so, any idea why?
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Andrew

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Support no longer has access to the patch so all requests must go through the Program Manager who keeps tract of who received it.
Bottom line is you need to update the reports to use the new export model.
That old legacy dll was bugging and impossible to maintain.
You can [purchase a support case here|http://store.businessobjects.com/store/bobjamer/DisplayProductByTypePage&parentCategoryID=&categoryID=54722300].
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