Oracle-L: AW: Off Topic, slightly - Crystal Reports internal format

From: Stefan Jahnke <Stefan.Jahnke_at_bov.de>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 04:53:22 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0047A18F.20020611045322@fatcity.com>

Hi Jared

Regarding your first problem:
I experienced the same "feature" a while ago. Seagate promised that one is able to just change an underlying ODBC connection and that the report should be able to run different data sources. Bunch of bull. Looks like it still doesn't work correctly.

And yes, we had to reengineer EVERY single report. CR support ? VERY ah, ... not helpful.

Regards,
Stefan

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Von: Jared.Still_at_radisys.com [mailto:Jared.Still_at_radisys.com] Gesendet: Montag, 10. Juni 2002 23:43
An: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Betreff: Off Topic, slightly - Crystal Reports internal format

List,

I have an 'opportunity' to make some points with end users, if possible.

I'm booting the crystal reports users off of my production databases ( including
SAP, can you believe that? ).

There reports will now run against a reporting server with snapshotted tables.

Their reports have been written with Crystal Reports 8 via ODBC.

2 problems:

When originally setup, the ODBC DSN matched the name of the database. Not smart I know, but I inherited it. Changing the data source in Crystal basically forces you to rewrite the report.
The username has changed. Production is CIMUSER, reporting is CIM_MV. The table names have '_MV' suffix in the reporting database.

Any reasonable tool would allow you to change these items without too much fuss.

Either CR8 is not reasonable, or I have just not found out how to do it yet. Without
reconstructing the report that is.

Any tips, resources, what have you are welcome.

If you know of any documentation detailing the *.rpt file format, that would be most
appreciated, as I could just modify their reports from the command line or with a
hex editor.

Thanks,

Jared

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