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Thread: Crystal XI Experience

Michael Lupino
Posts: 46

Crystal XI Experience Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 17 Sep 09 9:16 PM

I noticed that there wasn't a board for Crystal XI but if anyone has experience with the following, I would love to get a second opinion.

I'm trying to see if the following is possible. I've built a report using a dynamic list (parameter) that will go to the field and pull the results of that field so a user can use those results to filter on his/her report. In my specific case, I want to go a step further and get control of that list as the list is large and 99% sure to bomb crystal.

Here's the business case:

I'm working with a report where I want to build a parameter with account name. Due to our data, we have a lot of problems (with dups and potential junk data) that I need to exclude. I'd love to be able to add some SQL to filter out the list before its shown. Is that possible?

I'm familiar with doing this within the select expert or by using SQL queries in the formula editor for the record or report. Unfortunately I can't run the query there in this case.

Any thoughts?

What I've done:

I've built a parameter that was dynamic before and it worked well (when I was okay with the record set size). The only caveat and if someone has figured this out was that when the report ran (before the parameters window appear) it would ask the user to authenticate (user name/password) in order to build the results. I'm not sure if there's a way to hard code a user name/password. This only happened on dynamic lists not static lists (in my case).

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Martin Rudnick
Posts: 52

Re: Crystal XI Experience Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 30 Sep 09 3:23 PM

You can add filters to the Record Expert or the Group Expert that may help.
Another than that, we have embedded Xtal reports in .NET Extensions and used the parameter passed to the extension to filter the report.

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