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Brian Thews
Posts: 34

Report on data outside SLX Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 24 May 07 8:59 PM

We are hoping to find a way to create a report that queries data from another SQL server database, and show that report from within Saleslogix. Say, in the "personal" family of reports. Is this possible? We have even tried adding a subreport with another connection to our other data source - but keep getting errors that it can't establish the connection.

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Walter Shpuntoff
Posts: 167

Re: Report on data outside SLX Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 25 May 07 4:53 AM

Option 1
Create a view in your SalesLogix database that references the fields in the other db. Point to those in your report.

Option 2
Sage Visual Analyzer (formerly known as iReports) can do that without any problems.

ws

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Brian Thews
Posts: 34

Re: Report on data outside SLX Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 25 May 07 9:17 AM

Thanks for the info.
As for option 1 - unfortunately the data is not just in another db, it's in another data source (a separate SQL server) - and we would basically need another connection inside the report. SLX keeps complaining about this.
As for option 2 - I assume that is a product that we would have to buy? Do I just contact our business partner?

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Bob (RJ)Ledger
Posts: 1103

Re: Report on data outside SLX Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 25 May 07 9:28 AM

Option1:
Create a Linked server setup and have your (SQL) View use it.

We have a client where we did just what you are talking about - Works just fine.. Of course it's useless for remotes and remote offices

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rjl

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Walter Shpuntoff
Posts: 167

Re: Report on data outside SLX Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 25 May 07 9:47 AM

As RJ said - if you can link the servers that will have the authentication info built in to the link so that problem will go away. As he mentioned, that does not help anybody that is not local to both the servers (like remotes).

Regarding Visual Analyzer, yes that is an additional product that you would need to buy, but it opens up many more capabilities than you have with Crystal. As the name implies it is an analysis tool, which is so much more than just (icky) reports. (Not that i am biased or anything)

ws

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Bob (RJ)Ledger
Posts: 1103

Re: Report on data outside SLX Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 26 May 07 5:36 PM

Good plug for VA Walt!

The "dashboard" in Slx is DEAD... long live VA!

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rjl

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