No Data in Field Explorer

Post Author: Ice_Berg
CA Forum: .NET
Hi... I'm currently using visual studio 2005 team edition and the built-in Crystal report.In my report, i use the Project data source (from ado.net, I created a view before in the database).In visual studio, when i open the view to see the the data in the table, i have 1 record.however, when i use that view (or even table) in the crystal report, when i try to browse the data from the field explorer, i see no data.please help me to fix this problem, is there anything wrong that i do? thank you in advance for your helpBest regards Danny

Michael,
We had a similar situation but from my reseach the output from the stored procs cannot be viewed in the report designer in Eclipse. So we had to design the reports using the Crystal Reports Devloper application (the stand-alone version, not the Eclipse editor). The reports were designed w/an ODBC datasource. In order to get that working we had to create a JNDI JDBC datasource connection w/the exact same name as the ODBC datasource and that works. For example, the ODBC datasource was named OP01DSDB01.WORLD so we just created a JNDI datasource w/that exact same name (no jdbc/OP01DSDB01.WORLD just OP01DSDB01.WORLD). I'm not sure if there is a workaround for any of this but this was the easiest way to get them working.
I know this isn't the ideal situation, but that was the easiest way to get things working.

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