RE: Report Writers/Managers

We have started using Crystal Reports for all our reporting requirements in the FORTE applications accessing an Oracle database. For general reporting eg daily, monthly reports etc, we use Crystal INFO. This package uses the Crystal Report engine but also includes a scheduling and distribution component. No more writing report programs in COBOL for us and we do not intent to write any in Forte either!
Kam Chow
Mazda Australia
From: Max Branch
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 1997 1:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Report Writers/Managers
We are putting our first Forte project together and note that there is
a significant "batch" reporting requirement. Our site's background is
MVS COBOL based development. Very typical reporting stuff....and lots of
it !! We currently use CA-VIEW and CA-PREVAIL on the MVS platform and
would like to replicate this kind of report/report management
capability.
We are deploying to a WIN95/NT clients and HP-UX/Oracle server....SAS
would like the business, Andyne too......thoughts and observations
greatfully received.... note that Actuate is not yet in the country ....
and we are yet to be approached by Crystal Reports.... Should we
approach them/others ??
Max Branch
Sydney, Australia

Please check the following links
Report Painter/Writer
report painter and report writer
Regards,
Rajesh Banka
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Report Writers/Managers

We are putting our first Forte project together and note that there is
a significant "batch" reporting requirement. Our site's background is
MVS COBOL based development. Very typical reporting stuff....and lots of
it !! We currently use CA-VIEW and CA-PREVAIL on the MVS platform and
would like to replicate this kind of report/report management
capability.
We are deploying to a WIN95/NT clients and HP-UX/Oracle server....SAS
would like the business, Andyne too......thoughts and observations
greatfully received.... note that Actuate is not yet in the country ....
and we are yet to be approached by Crystal Reports.... Should we
approach them/others ??
Max Branch
Sydney, Australia

Please check the following links
Report Painter/Writer
report painter and report writer
Regards,
Rajesh Banka
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Report writers and report painters

hi
i nee the difference between report writers and report painters,
and how these are useful in reports,

Please check the following links
Report Painter/Writer
report painter and report writer
Regards,
Rajesh Banka
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Adding Reports in Managers Desktop (PPMDT)

Hello HR fans,
We currently use managers desktop within our organisation, however, we would like to add some new reports (e.g.sickness etc) into it - how would i go about doing this?
Thanks, as always
Neil

Hi Niel,
Select the Report Folder, right click on that, click the Selected Function, then you can view all the selected Functions under the report, Check the required reports as per your need.
Good Luck
Om

Report writers

Thanks for you reply.
We are currently testing Actuate.
Geoff, we have just had a look at your Forte integration sample on the Web.
It seems quite interesting.
At this point we still have two main doubts:
1) Performance
The starting point must be our Forte application, not the reporting tool :
this means we first have to call Actuate (or whatever) from Forte
environment (by using Actuate API), second we have to call Forte SO (through
OLE) from Actuate for making queries.
Have you any feeling of the performance of this round trip?
2) Multiplatform support
We agree that OLE is the best way for including Forte SO as a data source
for the reporting tool, but what
about Unix platforms?.
Thank you again
Daniela
Daniela Chiaberto
CSI-PIEMONTE
Cso Unione Sovietica 216
10134 Torino ITALY
tel: +39 11 4618332
fax: +39 11 4618212
e-mail: [email protected]
Actuate has a report writer which allows you to specify
data sources other than SQL and database querying.
In fact, you can use a Forte service object to fetch
the data for your Actuate reports. The "catch" is
that you need Forte R3 to make it work, with the
R3 feature of creating an OLE Automation Server from
your Forte service object. I have put a sample of
such integration on the Forte home page, in the
"Shareware" section.
Good luck!
Geoff ([email protected])
Chiaberto,
I do not think that you are wrong, but very correct. At Fox, we have a
complex query that is done by Forte that we do not want to duplicate in
our reporting tool and our intent is to pass it a result set. Creating the
same logic twice is definitely not the way to go.
You should be able to find a solution. At a minimum you should be able to
write a query result to a temporary table and they call the report writer to
format and print the query. Idealy this should be able to happen in
memory without using the database for passing the data. We are hoping
to use a C call interface to our report writer to handle this. Our vendor
assures us that it is possible. We'll see.
Another thing to consider is allowing your report writer to call a Forte
service to request data for reporting. Then you could re-use a forte
query from within the report writer.
Gregg ( [email protected])

We have just begun creating our first Forte application and are investigating
tools for creating reports from an Oracle database.
Has anyone had great success (or major disasters) with a particular reporting
tool?We've had really lousy experience with Chrystal Reports. It's unstable,
unpredictable and hard to manage. However, it can be used as an OLE
server, so it is possible to call Chrystal Reporst from a Forte
application, specify which report to print and open a Print Preview
window. Of course only on a Windows platform.
Pascal Rottier
Origin Netherlands/Rotterdam

RE: Report writers

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Dear Pascal,
Hi. I am Mohan, working on Forte. We too are trying to use Crystal
reports as an OLE server. I am able to specify the report name to print
but unable to view the report.
Here are the steps followed by me.
1) Crystal Reports was installed.
2) Olegen was run on command prompt. I got the following messages.To be perfectly honest, I don't know much about this. Another person of
our team was responsible for this. He was able to get this working, I
had other responsibilities. I could ask him however. I'll see if I can
come up with a decent answer.
Luck,
Pascal Rottier
Origin Netherlands/Rotterdam

Please check the following links
Report Painter/Writer
report painter and report writer
Regards,
Rajesh Banka
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Report Queue Managers Admin Password

Hi !
In Report queue Manager, what is the username & password for Admin ?.
I want to delete a particular job in queue manager
need help ...
regards

Hello,
The username/password is stored in the reports server configuration file :
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14099_17/bi.1012/b14048/pbr_conf.htm#i1007074
You can change this username/password as it is described in the doc ...
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Calculating DIrect and indirect reports for managers

Hi,
I have a flattened manager hierarchy. I want to calculate the direct and indirect reports for every manager. how can i do this.
Thanks
Edited by: user599926 on Apr 18, 2010 4:01 PM

I've never worked with Access as a database, before. But, if this were SQL (and it might work), then, yes, a LEFT OUTER JOIN would do the trick.
SELECT ta.Lastname, ta.Firstname, ta.EmpID, ta.MgrEmpID, ta.Email, ta.Location
FROM TableA ta LEFT OUTER JOIN TableA tb ON tb.MgrEmpID = ta.EmpID
ORDER BY ta.Lastname, ta.Firstname, tb.Lastname, tb.FIrstname
Or something like that.
^_^

Produce report NOT based on a single sql statement

I want to produce a tabular report based on a series of sql statments. Specifically, a report of managers that wil include counts of employees that are in other tables using differing criterias.
Name Count Count
using using
criteria 1 criteria 2
Manager1 35 242
I would expect to write an anonymous pl/sql block with a driving cursor determining the managers to report on. Within that cursor, I would execute a number of other queries to derive the count for each of the two columns.
I have tried creating a report region based on a sql statement, but that requires a single sql statement. I also tried creating a report region based on plsql, but it required an into statement of defined items. This option looks like it can provide multiple rows, but since it selected 'INTO' named fields, it only creates a report with the last row of data.
I must be missing something. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!!

If you want a wizard to create the form and report for you then yes you need to have a table. One thing that you can do is define a view that contains the data you need and define an Instead Of trigger on that view so the automatic fetch and dml will work but you can have the data stored into the different objects. basically the view and the trigger work as a router/dispatcher for the data.
*edit*
I should also add that you can write a pl/sql package which does the fetch and the dml operations with the form items as input. This is the solution I would typically use for any form that was not a simple CRUD form for a table. One thing to note is for the fetch I prefer to use out parameters for the form items so it requires the developer to map the item to the param in the app so it will show up when you are searching through the app. I highly discourage hiding item references inside of packaged code.
Good Luck!
Tyson
Message was edited by: TysonJouglet

Crystal Report 2008 / JavaScript hyperlink formula/ Issue

Hi,
We've developed the Crystal Report using the Crystal Reports 2008 software & integrated it in asp.net web page and also deployed in IIS web server. We have a requirement like opening the sub report in a new window. We have integrated the sub report also in a asp.net web page & passing the parameters in URL & acheived it..
For the above, we have used JavaScript code like "javascript:window.open('SubReport.aspx','...','..' ...)" in the hyperlink formula field of main report. It works fine while running using VS 2005 in the development box.
But in production serer (Windows 2003 server), the JS URL in the formula field is not working properly. Instead , it is rendered as a drill down JS url. Like javascript:bobj.event.publish('drilldown',........)
Can you please help us to resolve this issue?
(OR) Do we have any other approach to open the web page in new window from CR (same like a popup window)
Thanks
Jeyakumar
Edited by: Jeyakumar Seenivasagam on Nov 21, 2008 12:02 PM

I understand that the point of this is to allow the URL link to open the Subreport.aspx page in a new window. This can be problematic due to cross-site scripting restrictions. A few years ago we found that it was possible for report writers to add JavaScript to reports. This isn't a problem if the report writers are honest and nice. However, it is possible for JavaScript to be malicious so that ability to include JavaScript was turned off when the app uses our webform viewers. There may be a way to turn it off in the registry though. This is documented for CR XI r2 [here|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes/sdn_oss_boj_erq/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/scn_bosap/notes.do].
I am not sure if this reg key works for the .NET viewer, though the note specifies DHTML and .NET InfoView, so CR should work also. As you are using CR 2008, I suspect the key would be:
HKLMSoftwareBusiness ObjectsSuite 12.0Crystal Reports
You will most likely have to add the Export folder, then add the HTML folder, then add the EncodeHTMLForSingleLineFieldObjects and set it to "no".
Please note that this is a hack / workaround found for CR XI r2. The functionality you are looking to exploit was removed for a reason. As such if the above does not work for CR 2008, it will not be considered to be a "bug" and we will not be able to send this to R&D for a resolution.
Ludek

Reporting Services 2012 mobile support

Hi,
Does anyone have info on mobile support for Reporting Services 2012. We've found
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlrsteamblog/archive/2011/10/13/power-view-pass-and-mobile.aspx
which is a year old. It states the direction/strategy for "web based BI solutions" including SSRS for mobile devices (Android, iOS etc). Timeframe is set to 2nd half 2012. SQL Server 2012 SP1 is in CTP4 now and we can't find any info about better support
for mobile browsers and devices.
Has anyone found anything else or can share some experience? Our alternative is Telerik reporting which would be a new component for us which would add overhead to our project since the users and report writers know SSRS today.
Thanks!

Hi Mansos,
So far, my information abou the Mobile BI is gained from the Microsoft BI Team's MSDN
blog. There is a blog about Mobile BI posted on 3 April, 2012, you can refer to the following link:
Gartner BI Summit Day One Recap
If you need further information about the Mobile BI, I suggest that you contact the production group. Please see the "Contact US" section of the following site:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bi/solutions.aspx
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Org unit from managers desktop

Hi All,
I've created a report and it's been attached with the managers desktop.Now when I call this report from managers desktop, I want to read the Organization unit in my report before doing anything. I'm using PNP logical databse.With PCH logical database I could read the org unit but with PNP I can't read until I reach to GET PERNR statement. I can't use PCH logical databse as the requirement is to run the report based on employee number selection within that org unit.
It works fine even with PNP also but the customer wants to have cutomized screen to go back and forth years to see the report and while executing this custom funtionality , it's not picking the correct org unit.So I want to store the org unit the very first time when I'm calling the report and then I'll pass the same stored org unit for further functionality.
If anyone has idea how to grab this org unit , pls let me know. Will award points.
Thanks
Alok

Alok,
That is how I coded the Org.stru logic in my code ( FYI - I used LDB PNP ) ..
SELECT-OPTIONS: pnpobjid FOR PERNR-orgeh NO INTERVALS.
AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON VALUE-REQUEST FOR pnpobjid-LOW . "OUTPUT.
CALL FUNCTION 'RP_PNP_ORGSTRUCTURE'
    EXPORTING
      begda = SY-DATUM
      endda = SY-DATUM
      plvar = '01'
    TABLES
      pobjid = pnpobjid.
Loop at P_obj.
And in HRp1000    OBJID = p_OBJ-LOW
endloop .
Hope this will help !
Good luck !
Saquib Khan

Daily business report to top management

Hi all
We are running Enterprise portal 7.0 in our environment with no BI repoting.
Our requirement is as follows:
Currently the managers post their daily business reports on Excel; the problme in it is that everyone creates the report with his own idea with no standard format set for it. The top management wants the daily reports from managers in different factories (Procuement Managers, Sales Managers, etc) to be posted to them directly through portal AND in consolidated format, with standard formats for all reports from different managers.
I have an idea of implementing this report through ALV reports and create a Transaction iView for it and assign that iView to the top management role.
Expert suggestions are required to achieve this and to see if this is a correct one.
Handsome points will be awarded based on the criticality of the issue and time.
Regards,
AQ

Hi,
You are going in the right direction.
What you have to do is..according to the different managers you have to create a iview which takes the screen field parameter and matches it with the parameter of the ALV report....
and then you can create users for them...and assign the roles to them.
HTH
Regards,
Dhruv Shah

Generate Portal reports in PDF format

How can I generate Portal reports with the output in PDF format and send it as an attachment using email (UTL_SMTP)?
Best

Portal itself does not have the facility (unless they've added it recently but that would seem to me to make no sense). Use a report writer (the run-time library for Oracle Reports is part of the 9ias install) which have such facilities and allows the resultant file to be saved on the reports server which you can then send as an attachment using a proc you write with utl_smtp package (although, some report writers may already have that facility built in). If you don't like that option, Adobe sells packages that provide APIs to convert files into PDFs (you write the file to the server using the utl_file package assuming the db is Oracle, you could also write to the client's FSO but that's bad form). Or, if your really over-ambitous, you can attempt to write your own application to convert the file but then you'd need to know the PDF internals (and don't re-invent the wheel anyway). As above, you'd need to write an smtp-based package to pick up those files.

Convert a report painter in a report writer

Hi.
How can we convert a «report painter report» into a «report writer report»?
Thanks,
Julien

Hi Julien,
Can you elaborate your question? and what is the requirement and what is the scenario ?
Because Report Painter reports are created using Report Writers so i just want to know your exact requirement.
Regards
Ajoy

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