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Showing posts with label Crystal 9. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Even through I got crystal 9 and VSS 2003 work

Crystal Reports still sucks

Change Where statment for report

Right-click on report designer
>>select reports menu
>>>> Selection Formula
>>>>>>Row

In designer type of select criteria

Add new table to report schema

use Database Export, browse to new table and click move to right
Click links table and correct table for new table

Crystal Reports sucks

For VSS.NET 2003 and crystal 9
You must apply SP1, SP2, SP3 to fix a host of issues including table alias not handled properly when crystal renders its internal report query.

Also: If table schema has changed for an existing report, connect to database with current schema and use database expert to sync cached schema in report to actual schema.

Why anyone stills uses this product is beyond me? At least editor ingration into VSS.NET makes it 2% less painful.

Crystal 9 will connect to SQL Server 2008 database.