I am having an issue finding links within Crystal Reporting. I am trying to link 2 tables. However this seems to be a long task as I battle to find any links.
Is there a method that should be followed, as the most that have the same names to not link the tables correctly.
You should take a look on AX Data Dictionary Tables for the involved tables, then check the Relations node of the table. Any direct relation is usually on the child table. This of cause requires developer rights to the target AX system.
Remember to join on DataAreaId and PartitionId as well. Always check if any appropriate index exist.
Also the Reverse Engineering Tool may be of help.
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I have a field named Datavalue 2, I have to manually assign value to that field,How do I write the calculations for this. Any leads for this will be helpful.
Thanks in advance
Tableau is a read-only tool. It does not allow you to make persistent modifications to the original source data.
If you want to derive a value of a field that can change during the life of a Tableau visualization, but leave the original data source unchanged, that is entirely possible. The Tableau features that help with this are calculated fields and parameters. Parameters can be set interactively by the user. Both features are documented in the on-line help.
Tableau has some tricky issues with it, but it is possible to work with variables as well. I am making the assumption that your data is connected through a database.
In my experience, I was connected with data from an MSSQL server, and I had need to use variables for some data cleaning.
The solution I came upon was the difference between using a 'Custom SQL Query' and 'Initial SQL'.
Tableau will not allow declared variables, temp tables, or common table expressions in 'Custom SQL' but it will allow all of those items in the 'Initial SQL' area.
Under 'Connections' Tableau should have the server connection, right clicking on this will allow you to navigate to the 'Initial SQL' box.
After that, I had to do a little fidgeting with the code, but ultimately it was a successful process. Hope that helps somewhat to the OP or any newer viewers. There weren't quite enough tags to determine more about the issue.
I am trying to import the table from the oracle database into the Erwin tool in order to create the ER diagram. can anyone please let me know how i can do this???
The best way is to reverse engineer the Oracle database (assuming you have a valid ERwin license.
In ERwin, go to tools / Reverse engineer / and then choose to reverse engineer directly to a database or a script, the DBMS Type and version you are connecting to.
The next dialog box with prompt you to specify what database object you need to get information from and the granularity of the properties of metadata for each object chosen. There are other option to choose relating to owners, tablespace options as well as ability to infer primary key via index / names.
Finally, The next dialog box will prompt you to connect to your Oracle instance and depending on you rights to the object (schema), etc., Erwin will generate a new diagram for you in ERwin version R9, a Main Subject area stored display in R7 and R8 (this is the same as a diagram in R9).
If you are trying to just reverse engineer 1 or "n" number of tables it might be best to generate the script from Oracle and then use Erwin R/E (reverse engineer) using the script option. Or try complete compare against a blank model.. This is another functionality and is more complex and should be treated as another subject matter for another discussion but I just wanted to make mention that this is a known practice.
Is it at all possible using CRM 2011 and SSRS to generate a report on a single record, and only get results for that one record?
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Additional Info - Must Use:
Custom SSRS report
Custom entity in CRM
Here's a more specific link to your question: link. You're probably looking for pre-filtering (look for "3. Pre-filtering Element" in the link provided) if you want the report to be record specific (context sensitive).
Here's a link describing the 2 types of pre-filters (CRM 4.0 but the theory applies to CRM 2011): link. And here's an example of prefiltering in CRM 2011: link
I have done this successfully in CRM 2011 with a completely custom report made in BIDS, on a custom entity, with full context sensitivity.
Make sure to learn fetchXML as it's going to be the going forward technology for these reports. The existing reports are using SQL which make them bad examples to copy off of.
Here's an example on how to extract fetchXML from an advanced find: link It also has more information on pre-filtering.
Take a look a the report Account Overview.rdl. It could be executed for a single account record or multiple records.
See Reporting for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
Create an embedded connection to the CRM database engine for the environment you want to target.
Create an embedded dataset to query the current record. This going to be kind of weird since experience will tell you that you are going to get tons of records, but because of the clunkiness behind CRM it will actually only get the current record. For example, if you wanted to get the current quote you would use "SELECT quoteid FROM FilteredQuote AS CRMAF_Quote"
Add a parameter to store the reference to the entity you just queried. In keeping with this example I created #QuoteFilter which is type text, could store multiple values (even though that's not what we're using it for), and gets its default value from the dataset in step 2. Also, probably ought to make this hidden since GUIDs aren't end user friendly.
Finally, use the parameter discovered in the where clause of the other datasets. For example, a search on quote products for the current quote would look something like SELECT * FROM FilteredQuoteDetail WHERE (quoteid = #QuoteFilter)
As a final note, you should keep in mind that CRM loves to remember everything even when you don't want it, too. On one of my reports I messed up my datasource and CRM was forever convinced that the report should run against all records. I fixed my datasource, but uploading the report did not trigger a refresh and correct the problem. In the end, I deleted the report from CRM, created a new one, uploaded the same exact file with no changes, and everything worked. Go figure.
I'm fairly new to using the Birt Report Designer and need to figure out how to generate a report from a SQLite database. I have suceeded in getting it to connect to the DB but am now unsure how to generate a report and the tutorials that I have found aren't of much help so far.
I have a template that was given to me by my employer that has a few fields, I'm wondering if these fieldnames (in the template) are supposed to match field names in the DB.
Also, when I go to Run->View Report-> As PDF I am unsure what I am supposed to enter for the field "User Key", does this correspond to a table name in the DB or something along these lines?
As of now, I have tried entering a table name but just a blank report is generated.
If anyone can point me to a good resource or help with this I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks
There are two books i could really advice:
BIRT - A Field Guide to Reporting
Integrating and Extending BIRT
and the Eclipse Help containing BIRT documentation.
I suppose the User Key could be report parameter (listed in Data Explorer window), which is passed to Data Set to select appropriate data. If I'm guessing right, check within a Data Set editor ("Parameters" tab and "Query" tab) where the User Key parameter goes in - probably to one of the table field in a WHERE clause. Parameters in a query are represented by question marks: SELECT * FROM fooTable WHERE barColumn = ?. Hope tracking this would lead to find out, what to enter to the parameter.
Additionally, ensure if your Data Set(s) is(are) connected correctly to your SQLite Data Source ("Data Source" tab in a Data Set editor).
Being as new as you are to BIRT, I would suggest building a couple of reports with the sample DB (Classic Models). There are many, many samples out there for you to use as a guide. Additionally, most tutorials will use the Classic Models data so you can follow right along. After you create a couple of practice reports (this should not take more than 30-45 minutes) the template you have been given will likely make A LOT more sense and allow you to make progress almost immediately.
If you are looking for a nice collection of tutorials and samples, be sure to check out Birt Exchange for Dev Share (samples) & tutorials.
As for the "User Key" this is almost certainly a report-level parameter used to filter the data set (as the previous answer points out).
Good Luck!
I am using Crystal Reports 8.0.1.0 and have an OLEDB connection set as "favourite".
We have several reports being run against a few stored procedures on the database.
Our database is an SQLExpress 2005 named instance.
One of the reports deals with balance, i.e. we have to provide a balance report for a specific company or set of companies.
The customer, however, has specifically asked us to have a separate section to be the last one for a specific economic account typology and in order to do this, we have to separate this one from the others which are instead displayed using two parallel subreports.
Hence our structure should be like follows:
GENERAL HEADING
PATRIMONIAL STATE
...data...
ECONOMIC COUNTS
...data...
THIRD-PARTY EFFECTS
...data...
The first two sections below the general heading are achieved with two parallel subreports, so now we have to display the third section.
Is it clear up to now? Well, as you may well be aware, CR subreports require you to set the database location, regardless if you have set one up already for main report.
The problem, however, is that if I try to set the location pointing to our stored procedure(which returns ALL the data for the balance report), the first time it will display the message in subject, and the second time again, but this time it'll also crash.
Our stored procedure has a parameter and both previous subreports(the ones in parallel) are set to the same SP and are working flawlessly.
This crash makes it impossible for me to work on the third section and I'm pretty much at loss as to what would be the best approach to solve the issue at hand.
Any ideas/suggestions?
I would love to receive your answers and I hope my problem was clear enough(I'm very willing to further delve into it for clarification if ever needed).
Thank you so much for your time,
Andrea Raimondi
Geez... changing the connection from OLEDB to SQLServer it correctly fetches the rowset and doesn't crash!
I am speechless.
Andrew