Table relations lost in Crystal Reports when connecting directly to SAP R/3

Currently, we are trying to create reports in CR2008 directly on SAP R/3 tables. We encounter the following problems:
- 1 it is quite difficult to find out which tables you need
- 2 if you import the tables into CR you have to define the relations between the tables again
This takes too much time and is way too complex.
So the question is: should I define infosets and load these into CR? what is the general "working method"/procedure to deal with these issues?

Hi,
in case you not familiar with the tables from your ERP system I would recommend using an InfoSet or ABAP Functions as a source.
ingo

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