Universes and Crystal Server

It appears that universes can not be created in CS Xi.
Is there a demo of BOXi available that will allow us to practice creating universes until our full BO system is installed?
Thanks

Nothing immediately comes to mind on test driving universe designer. I don't know enough about the product offerings in the free trials to say if it's packaged in.
http://www.businessobjects.com/product/freetrials.asp
I did contact the person in charge of the virtual appliance test drives and let him know of your question. If others are interested in a virtual appliance for this type of test drive, please sound off below.

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OLAP universes and Crystal Reports

Hi everybody,
as we know Crystal Reports can not use OLAP universes as data source. The details about that have been discussed several times in this forum, for example in the threads:
Logon failed with Universe data source
Logon failed when trying to connect to a SAP BW related universe
The possible data sources are perfectly explained in the Blog from Ingo Hilgefort.
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog
But... why these connection type is not possible???
From my point of view these missing functionality comes with a lot of drawbacks. The universe has a lot of advantages, and first of all it is isolating the business users form technical complexities. But if the business users can not access to the OLAP universe they have to face to technical complexities.
Another point: Consider a perfect integrated SAP BW environment with Business Objects Enterprise and Crystal and Xcelsius. The administrator can now define a perfect universe structure, tailored on the particular business needs of the end users. This universe structure can be used for Web Intelligence and Xcelsius (QaaWS). But for the Crystal Reports I have to define another interface to the BW data sources, which can not be done by the Administrator.
So, some open questions:
- Why is the connect to OLAP universes not possible - does that make sense?
- Will the connectivity be available in future - is that part of the actual roadmap?
- What is the recommanded approach for a business case as shown above, meaning how can I isolate my business users from technical complexities by using SAP BW as data source for Crystal Report.
Thank you for any comments and advises,
Sebastian

Hello to everybody.
When I was starting to work on the BO products I had exactly the same question.
Why were the OLAP Universes not supported in Crystal Reports?
Well, I have a few facts in my mind, I explained the decision of SAP in this case with for myself.
1. Very simple and my first thought: monetary aspects. There excist the SAP Integration Kit. These drivers work pretty fine. So for what reason SAP should invest money in an other technique to access the SAP data?
2. It excist a server solution for small and medium-sized companies named Crystal Reports Server. I'm not sure but I don't think this package contains the Universe Designer. If acces on SAP data over the OLAP Universes would be possible, the Crystal Reports Server customers should also get the Designer tool and the Translation tool, too. Less profit margin.
3. Creating a Universe out of OLAP data destroys the moredimensionality. Universes are flat constructs. So maybe it makes no sense to use this meta layer.
4. A typical Crystal Report user isn't someone who had no technical understanding. For me these users should know and understand the data source very well. So an Universe would limit there the possibilities for building a report.
5. I think the SAP itself did not know where the journey should go with this toolset. A roudmap that changes severalt times in one year an many many rumours about these tools proof this.
So I think maybe we just have to wait a few months and the support for the OLAP Universes will come with a fix pack. Who knows...
Greetings,
Sebastian

BOBJ Auditing - Activity Universe and Crystal Reports

Here are the user requests. Are these possible with BOBJ Auditor? There are some sample reports in Infoview Public folders and Activity Universe connection is working.
1. User and Group access and type of access to all folders and Crystal reports.
2.Develop a report of the inventory of all scheduled reports indicating report name, location, frequency/schedule and distribution list (include FTP / file location if not e-mail).
A monthly report would probably be sufficient and would be used to facilitate management oversight of report distribution.
3.An inventory of all reports indicating report name, location, database connection, scheduled or not scheduled, when created, when last time run, by whom
4.Automated report for failed instances - Crystal report failures within folders. Most of the reports are run overnight
Environment: BOXI R2, Crystal Reports, Activity Universe

Hello,
I'll attempt to answer your question. I should point out that not everything you need is an audited event. You might be better served by the Query Builder for some of your requirements.
1. It is possible to create a list of all folders/ reports a user/group has access to. The type of access a user/group has is not audited.
2. This is possible (more or less). You might have to move the distribution list portion to a different tab/ report.
3. Again, I'm uncertain how much of this info is audited. Needless to say, a report that has never been run will have no audit information. Report name and location (i.e. within BOE) are audited. It doesn't look like the database connection is audited.
4. This is possible and relatively simple.
Best,
Srinivas

Connection error -2147217387 with Java RAS SDK and Crystal Server 2011

Due to a change in operating system, we are required to upgrade our Crystal Reports server from BusinessObjects Crystal Reports Server 11.5 to SAP Crystal Server 2011. We use the Java RAS SDK (RASCore 9.2.2.446 / RASApp 9.0) more or less as described in Java RAS2008-unmanaged exportreport. We use the Crystal Server to export reports stored on disk as PDF files.
In SAP Crystal Server 2011, the CrystalReports2011ReportApplicationServer is configured with Request Port 1566 and Host Identifier 172.16.4.154 (the local machine). The Crystal Server, report-definition files, and Java VM are all on the same machine.
The error is
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Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
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The code is as follows.
ReportClientDocument clientDocument = new ReportClientDocument();
clientDocument.setReportAppServer("172.16.4.154:1566"); // localhost
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clientDocument.open("D:\\path\\to\\report.rpt", com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.OpenReportOptions.refreshRepositoryObjects.value());
DatabaseController dbController = clientDocument.getDatabaseController();
dbController.logon("dbuser", "dbpassword");
ParameterFieldController pfController = clientDocument.getDataDefController().getParameterFieldController();
Fields fields = clientDocument.getDataDefinition().getParameterFields();
ParameterField oldParameter = (ParameterField) field.get(0);
ParameterField newParameter = new ParameterField();
oldParameter.copyTo(newParameter, false);
newParameter.getCurrentValues().clear();
ParameterFieldDiscreteValue newDiscreteValue = new ParameterFieldDiscreteValue();
newDiscreteValue.setValue("paramValue");
newParameter.getCurrentValues().add(0, newDiscreteValue);
pfController.modify(oldParameter, newParameter);
clientDocument.refreshReportDocument();
PrintOutputController po = clientDocument.getPrintOutputController();
InputStream is = po.export(reportFormat);
Could anyone advise me how to proceed with resolving this error?

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at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.lib.ReportSDKServerException.throwReportSDKServerException(ReportSDKServerException.java:115)
at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.TCPIPCommunicationAdapter.request(TCPIPCommunicationAdapter.java:659)
at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.AdapterCommunicationChannel.send(AdapterCommunicationChannel.java:88)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportAppSession.request(ReportAppSession.java:382)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportAppSession.logon(ReportAppSession.java:342)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportAppSession.initialize(ReportAppSession.java:330)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ClientDocument.initializeServerConnectionAdapter(ClientDocument.java:627)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ClientDocument.initializeServerConnection(ClientDocument.java:658)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportClientDocument.initializeServerConnection(ReportClientDocument.java:1420)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ClientDocument.open(ClientDocument.java:982)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportClientDocument.open(ReportClientDocument.java:226)
at ourPackage.OurClass.openReport(OurClass.java:97)
The revised code is
ReportClientDocument clientDocument = new ReportClientDocument();
clientDocument.setReportAppServer("172.16.4.154:1566"); // localhost
// Error occurs here
clientDocument.open("D:\\path\\to\\report.rpt", com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.OpenReportOptions.openAsReadOnly.value());

Dynamic Parameter List works on desktop but not when run on Crystal Server

Hi,
I have a report, and the database command query takes one parameter ({?Year}. There is a second parameter used for a record select which is a dynamic paramenter list (multiple select, required). When running the report from Crystal Reports 2008 on my desktop, it first prompts for a year, and then once that is entered, it will come back with the list (of Companies) to select from. It works very smootly and as desired.
But when I load this report to Crystal Reports 2008 Server, it will ask for the year (which is a static list), and this is good, but then it comes back with an empty dynamic select list on the next screen.
Are there any special caveats that I need to be aware of in regards to dynamic lists when running from the CR server?
Thanks!

Hi Pat,
This should work but a couple of things to check:
1) Are the two parameters linked to the same database? If the parameters are linked to fields from different tables in different databases then you need to make sure you set the Database Configuration and have the report log on to both databases.
2) Are Crystal Reports and Crystal Server the same version? I had problems with parameters after we upgraded to 2008. We had to install the latest service packs for both Crystal 2008 and the Enterprise Server. Then we installed Crystal 2008 on the same machine the Enterprise Server was on. Crystal Reports and the Enterprise Server share some common files. Some of those files were updated for Crystal but not for the Enterprise Server yet. Once we synched them our reports have run fine.
Good luck,
Brian

Oracle client 32/64 bit on Crystal Server 2013 and Windows Server 2012

I'm getting the error "Unknown Database Connector Error" when I run report on the server and it works OK on crystal designer 2013.
Been reading this thread 32&64 bit Oracle Client but not much help there.
Here are the details
System
Windows Server 2012
Crystal Server 2013 SP5
Crystal Server has been installed and appears to work fine. I was able to develop a brand new report locally and saved it to the server and it displays ok. Of course when I click on refresh on the report, it will error out due to database connection it looks like.
We have installed both oracle client drivers 64 and 32. 64 was installed first and then 32.The path has been modified so that the 32 shows up first.
I even ensure oracle_home and oracle_home32 are specified and restarted the server. I still get the same error.
The tns entries are also located in both installs of oracle client...
What might be the issue?

Oracle Database Client 12.1.0.2.0 (32-bit and 64-bit installed)
Installation Type: Custom
COMPONENTS INSTALLED:
SQLPLUS
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We are currently not using an ODBC connection.
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How do I create a report of what is run and when on Crystal Server

In crystal server, how do I create a report that will tell me the name of all of my reports and the time it is scheduled to run?
I get the feeling it is in the Query Builder, but I have no idea what the names of all of these tables are.
Anyone ever done this or know of another way to do this?

Please download https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/index?rid=/library/uuid/404170c1-59ae-2b10-b19f-c86764e759a5#rating and read the section titled "Auditing Reports".

Crystal Reports-Universe and Business Views. Pros & cons. BVs to Universe

Hi Gurus,
We have around 500 + Crystal Reports developed on top of Business Views, Stored Procedures, Command Objects and some directly connected to the tables. No Universes are there in our current environment and all reports undergo frequent changes.
We are planning to replace Business Views with Universe and use them as data provider for existing Crystal Reports and also planning to do some ad-hoc reporting using Web-Intelligence. I have expertise in developing both Crystal Reports and Web Intelligence reports. But I never designed any complex Crystal Reports against Universe / Business Views. I heard that there are several issues with Crystal against Universe (e.g.: Cascading Prompts, LOVs, Row Level Security etc...) Most of our Crystal Reports have several sub-reports and some dynamic cascading parameters.
We currently have not finalized any tool. Some are advising not to disturb the current environment and some say migrating to Universe is a good option because Business View manager tool is going to be trashed in few years. My personal view is to used both Crystal and Web-I and replace Business Views with Universe because we can use it for both Crystal and Web-I.
Can you please post your views on this?
Also, please post the issues (& solutions) you got with Crystal Reports against Universe. Also advantages and disadvantages of using Universe over Business Views.
Environment: Business Objects XI R2 and Crystal Reports XI R2
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Many thanks,
Shamanth.

Hello,
you can find an article about Crystal Reports on Universe here:
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/index?rid=/library/uuid/20984c2b-17f1-2b10-1091-d18977f7cd8f
As you said, an important item to consider is reusability: if you want to reuse your work between Crystal and WebI then you have to go with Universes. If you are ok in keeping the two in separate worlds then Business Views can still bring a lot of value to CR. Business views will stay in the market still for a long time (in mainteinance, so don't expect new features).
Looking at the future, we expect that In the long term, business views will be replaced by universes. Keeping this in mind, a migration of a report from an 'older' version of a universe to a new one will probably go smoother than a migration from a business view to a universe.
Hope that it helps
PPaolo
Edited by: Pierpaolo Vezzosi on Jan 5, 2010 11:35 AM

Which version of crystal reports can link to Windev 14 and SQL server 2008 applications

I am developing an application with windev 14 and sql server 2008, i would like to know which version of crystal report can i use?

Hi GS,
Move to .NET SDK forum.
I don't know how CR for Visual Studio will integrate into WinDev but to get the installer for VS 2010/2012/2013 go to this page:
SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio: Updates & Runtime Downloads
It's the runtime for CR 2011 or 2013 now.
As for SQL 2008 you need to install the Client tools and when creating reports use the SQLNCLI10.dll as the client DB driver for ODBC or OLE DB.
Don

Difference between Business objects Entprise and crystal report server

hello,
I have to develop reports which will be used by a group of 100 to 150 users and total reports are 7 and each report will be around 100-150 pages each. So i am in the process of evaluvation BOE and CR server.Can any body help me out in this.
Prem
Trying something new

Hello Prem,
The Concurrent Access License is per-user logon to Crystal Report Server or BusinessObjects Enterprise.
Each User logon will increment the CAL. If a User logs on twice, then CAL is increased by two. A CAL will not be released until a User logs off. If the maximum number of CALs have been attained, further logon attempts will be denied.
With a Named User License, you can have a number of active Users up to the number of NUL that you've purchased. The named user can connect multiple times to the system. If you would like to add additional Users beyond the NUL that you have, you either have to purchase further NUL, or disable a User already there.
In either case, the CAL or NUL won't work like the CPL that you have with the JRC - license management is handled by the Enterprise system.
With Licensing for the Server or Enterprise, each user accessing reports must be named within the system.
Sincerely,
Ted Ueda

Windows 2008 Web Server and Crystal Reports Runtime 10 comptability

We have migrated a website that was previoulsy on a Wndows 2003 server using IIS6 and Crystal Reports Runtime v 10 on ASP.NET 2.0
After migrating the website, and installing the Crytal Reports runtime, we are getting application errors related to Crystal Reports Runtime in event viewer and the browser.
For one is Crystal Reports Runtime v10 compatible with Windows 2008 Server, IIS 7 ?

No it is not. You're looking for about a 5 year forward compatibility. At this time, only CR 2008 (12.x) and Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008 (10.5) are supported on WIN 2008. See [this|https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=56787567] blog for more details.
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Crystal Report Server xi and Crystal report 2008 Barcode

Hi, I have a crystal report server running (version xi) and have designed some reports using crystal report 2008.
My problem is that I have used barcodes in the new reports and the server throws up an error about the barcode dll.
Error message is
Unable to retrieve Object.
Error in File Report: Error in formula . 'BarcodeC39ASCII( ToText(CurrentFieldValue) )' UFL 'u2lbcode.dll' that implements this function is missing.
Can I copy this dll to the server so that it runs ?
Also, is there a crystal report server 2008, I dont see an install option on my CD?
Is my only option to purchase Crserver 2008 ?

Hi Philip,
If you check in Crystal Reports designer when you created your formula, you will notice in the 'Function Tree' of the Formula editor the DLL that responsible for 'Barcode39ASCII'. The DLL is u25azalea.dll.
Since this DLL was only shipped for CR2008 and not Crystal Reports XI there may be other dependencies. As far as the location where it should be placed for CRS-XI, it would most likely need to reside in:
\Program Files\Business Objects\common\3.x\bin
Regards,
Wallie

Universe based Crystal report date prompt appears as DateTime

I have faced this issue in all XI versions and was hoping there is a solution for this in XI 3.1 and/or Crystal 2008.
There is a date dimension in a universe which is tied to a datetime datatype on the backend SQL server field. If a Crystal report (XI,2008) uses this date dimension as a prompt, the prompt created in Crystal report is of type Date Time and therefore when the report is ran, the required syntax for this prompt is with timestamp. There was a fix for a similar issue in XI R2 Fix Pack 3.3 by creating a useDateInsteadOfDateTime registry key and setting its value to the DSN of the ODBC based universe connection. I could never get that to work by the way.
Any ideas on how to change the prompt data type to Date without the timestamp in XI 3.1 and Crystal 2008 reports?
Thanks.

Hi Farhan Jaffery
Have you tried to change the object defination in universe level and crate a prompt and check.
Also try to use Add Command to retrive the database field with only date and create a prompt.
Thanks,
Sastry

KBase ID 344488: Logon failed when connecting to universe in Crystal Report

My question is related to [KBase Article ID:344488|http://technicalsupport.businessobjects.com/KanisaSupportSite/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=344488&sliceId=&dialogID=24618166&stateId=1%200%2024614949]
Article refers to: Crystal Reports XI
Symptom
When attempting to create a connection to a universe in Crystal Reports, after clicking OK in the Database Expert Query Panel, the following error message appears: "Logon failed".
The query is not generated. In the Universe folder of Database Expert, the following message appears: "u2026no items found".
I'm running BOE XI and Crystal Report XI R2 with MS SQL Server 2005 using ODBC.
The resolution psoted in the KBase Article ID:344488 does not resolve the issue in my case. Does anyone have any ideas on what to look at next?

Hello Donald,
I'll describe the process flow when Crystal Report reports off of a Universe, in hopes the info will help narrow down your issue.
When you create a Crystal Report and open an Universe, it connects to the Enterprise system and uses a Report Server on Enterprise to generate the SQL Statement. After you create the Query in the Query Panel, and add the Query to the report, the SQL Statement is sent to the Crystal Report Designer.
The Crystal Report Designer makes a local connection to the database and sends the SQL Statement to retrieve data.
You're using ODBC connectivity. If the defined ODBC isn't identical between the server where the Report Server is running, and the client where the Crystal Report Designer is running, then you'd get the Logon failed error.
Other than checking the drivers, I'd recommend that the ODBC connection on both server and client point to the same database, and allow use of the same database logon credentials.
Sincerely,
Ted Ueda

Crystal Reports 2008 connecting to Crystal Server 2011

Hello SAP Experts,
I am new with the Crystal Client/Server platform and the only knowledge I have with the infrastructure is from the Crystal Server 2011 documentation I have pulled from SAP's website. I have looked at a lot of online resources but very few have the answers that I need.
I built an instance of Crystal Server 2011 running on Windows Server 2008 R2. Our clients are currently using Crystal Reports 2008 client where they connect directly to a SQL 2008 Data Warehouse to pull reports.
For security reasons, they want to implement Crystal Server 2011 to connect to the SQL 2008 Data Warehouse as a single point of entry, instead of having several Crystal Reports 2008 clients connecting to the SQL Data Warehouse.
The idea is to have the clients connect to the Crystal Server; the Crystal Server will then connect to the SQL Data Warehouse so clients can pull reports from it.
My questions are:
1. Is it possible to connect a Crystal Reports 2008 client to Crystal Server 2011? If so, how do I accomplish this?
2. Do I need to create a Universe in order for the Crystal clients to pull data/reports from the SQL 2008 Data Warehouse? Or is there a way I can create a connection without a Universe?
Any help offered is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

Check our site for more info but in general CR fully respects all DB security, if the user does not have permissions on the table used in the report the report will fail to run.

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