SAP Crystal Reports - SDK

Because I answer a lot of questions under the Crystal Reports tags, I often see people misusing the tags. Below is a general description of what each is for: SAP Crystal Reports – questions about general report design and how to use the... Read More »

SAP Crystal Server 2013 Priority One support will be ending on 31 Dec 2020 so now it’s a good time to start planning your migrations to either SAP Crystal Server 2016 or to the next versions of SAP Crystal Reports and SAP Crystal Server that will... Read More »

New Year, new blog. This blog is essentially a continuation of my 2018 blog.   As in 2018, this blog will be updated on a monthly bases with top N tweets (usually less than 10) from @CRnAnalysisTips twitter account. The tweets are usually... Read More »

One of the biggest values for any company is its Intellectual Property and SAP is trying to  protect its Knowledge. As a result, most of the SAP Knowledge Base Articles are protected (gated). Only Users with S-user credentials have access to most... Read More »

Environment: SAP BusinessObjects 4.2 SP4 Patch 4 SAP Crystal Report for Enterprise(CRE): Version 14.2.4.2410 Build 2016 Support Pack 4   Use Case: Sending a report copy to the respective vendors that are listed on the SAP Crystal Report for... Read More »

As of BI4.2 SP5 release, a new Java SDK for Promotion Management is available for managing the transport of objects between systems. The SDK provides 3 scenario based workflows as does the Performance Management tool in the CMC and the LCM command... Read More »

Currently if you want to change the BO server parameter, such as adding “-trace”, you have to log on to CMC, open the Properties dialog and do the change there. In some cases, the users will limit the usage of CMC. It means sometimes they will... Read More »