Salesforce Database Driver for Crystal Reports XI R2?

I've been trying to find a download for this salesforce driver for a while now. The following links do not work:
http://www.crystalreports.com/salesforce/driver.asp.
http://ftp1.businessobjects.com/outgoing/sales/ondemand/sfdc_driver30.zip
https://sapmats-us.sap-ag.de/download/download.cgi?id=1J9IYNTIZO2XBRD4QJ4NH2RKW7QJ1BX3BR6ZXKF08GMWHXTENN
The second link is from: How to enable support for Salesforce.com API v13 in Crystal Reports
The last link is from: Re: CRXI R2 and Salesforce.com Driver 3.0
Where is this driver now?

Hi Jeff,
Unfortunately those download sites have recently been removed.
I'll see if anyone still has them and if R&D can post them on our new Download page.
XI R2 is end of life and no downloads are available except the full install.
Possibly someone out there still has them available for you, we may not be able to make them available now.
Don

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i hope this helps
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H

License for Crystal Report for Visual Studion 2005

Hi All,
I am developing reports for my application using crystal reports for VS 2005. I read on microsoft site (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318102 ) that the free server software supports three active requests to the server. It further says that developer will need to purchase additional licenses to increase scalability. I think that our application would need the additional license. However, i was unable to find a link on business objects site were i can buy the additional license for crystal report for VS 2005. The link takes me to license for Crystal report 2008. It would be great if you can answer my following questions:
- what version of crystal reports do we need to purchase?
- do we need license for each implementation or do we need license for the developers only.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Abdul

Great questions! Let's get at em, one at a time:
How would you define a print job?
- A print job will essentially be consumed any time the print engine (crpe32.dll) needs to do work. So, processing one report = a print job. However, say you have one subreport, now the number of print jobs = 2. Now, say the subreport is in the details section and runs once per record. And you have 100 records. You will be running 1 + 100 print jobs. Paging to another page consumes a print job. Zooming consumes a print job, exporting and printing to a printer consumes a print job. So, depending on the report and the number of users, print jobs may be used up quite quickly. You can increase the print job limit by modifying the PrintJobLimit in the registry. For CR 2008, the reg entry is here:
HKLMsoftware usiness objectssuite 12.0
eport application serverinprocserver
(the above is used irrespective of the SDK (CR, RAS, BOE))
I am not using report viewer to render the report. I use 'ExportToDisk' method to save the report in word or pdf format. Does 'ExportToDisk' make one print job?
- see above. Again, if the report has a subreport, this will consume at least two print jobs.
How much time does a typical print job takes to complete?
- no way to tell in general terms. There are too many variables that will affect this. From how complex the report to database connections to version of runtime
What care shall I take to reduce the print job time?
- Best you can do is ensure that you are destroying the report object once you are done with it (report.close, report.dispose)
Will using Report Application Server (RAS) or Business Objects Enterprise increase the number of concurrent print jobs? If yes then by what amount?
- no it will not
To utilize Report Application Server (RAS) or Business Objects Enterprise, do I just need to use a specific SDK or is there some thing more to it?
- You do need to use the RAS assemblies for RAS, BOE assemblies for BOE. More information is below.
Sample RAS apps:
https://boc.sdn.sap.com/samples/84/1194
An article on RAS:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/10b840c0-623f-2b10-03b5-9d1913866b32
A power point as to which may be the best SDK to use:
https://boc.sdn.sap.com/node/972
Differences between all the SDKs (webinar):
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/crystalreports-dotnet?rid=/webcontent/uuid/106b8996-067e-2b10-2f8a-d8c136b3e330
BOE samples:
https://boc.sdn.sap.com/samples/84/1193
BOE SDK library:
http://devlibrary.businessobjects.com/BusinessObjectsXIR2SP2/en/devsuite.htm
Ludek

Stored Procedure for Crystal Reports

Hi All,
I developed this test stored procedure to see wheather we could a stored procedure for crystal reports. It compiled without any problem, but when I run it, it gives me error message. Here is the stored Procedure..
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE WOLD1SIM.TEST_PROCEDURE(
TEST_CURSOR IN OUT TEST_PACKAGE.TEST_TYPE,
TEST_PARAMETER IN TEST_TABLE.ID%TYPE)
AS
BEGIN
OPEN TEST_CURSOR FOR
SELECT *
FROM TEST_TABLE
WHERE TEST_TABLE.ID = TEST_PARAMETER;
END TEST_PROCEDURE;
And
This is the error message..
ERROR at line 2:
ORA-06550: line 2, column 1:
PLS-00201: identifier 'TEST_PROC' must be declared
ORA-06550: line 2, column 1:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
I have created the package sucessfully.
I was wondering If any one of you can advice me where I am making the mistake.
Thank you

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE WOLD1SIM.TEST_PROCEDURE(TEST_CURSOR IN OUT TEST_PACKAGE.TEST_TYPE,
TEST_PARAMETER IN TEST_TABLE.ID%TYPE)
...you have 2 parameters in your procedure WOLD1SIM.TEST_PROCEDURE(). you should also use two parameters when you execute the procedure.

JRC Deployment Guide for Crystal Reports 2008

I just downloaded a trial version of Crystal Reports 2008 & was testing out the integration of this component into our Java web based application.
I found the "Crystal Reports XI Release 2 - Java Reporting Component Deployment Guide" PDF file, but I was wondering if there was a more recent version of this guide for Crystal Reports 2008. Maybe I'm a bit confused regarding the versions but this guide currently references JARs in a folder under ...\3.5\java\lib. However, when I looked in the same section of Crystal 2008, I noticed it was \4.0\java\lib & the JARs are different.
Is there a new JRC Depolyment Guide for Crystal Reports 2008?...If not, is there any documentation I can use to map between the 3.5 libraries and the 4.0 libraries?
Thanks

Hi,
There is no separate JRC has been launched for the CR 2008.
But SAP has launched the Crystal Reports 4 Eclipse 2.0 in which CR 2008 has been integraqted with backword compatibility.
To know more please check following link:
[Whats new in CR4E 2.0|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/301717ef-3ad3-2b10-5aad-8d9b73a6e365]
Thanks,
Tej

Do I need a new license for Crystal Reports Release 2?

Post Author: jerryk
CA Forum: Upgrading and Licensing
Hi,
We have a license for Crystal Report XI. However we need Crystal Reports Release 2 since we are using .Net 2.0. I just tried installing the Crystal Reports Server on out test web server and it would not accept the license key we have. Do we need to get a new key?
jerry

Post Author: colin mackenzie
CA Forum: Upgrading and Licensing
Hey jerryk.
Check out this URL.
It will help.
http://www.businessobjects.com/products/reporting/crystalreports/xi_release_2.asp

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