User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS CRYSTAL REPORTS 2008 SP0 RELEASE NOTES 03-2008

[. . . ] THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. 8 Crystal Reports 2008 SP0 Release Notes Introduction About Crystal Reports 2008 1 About Crystal Reports 2008 Crystal Reports is designed to work with your database to help you analyze and interpret important information. Crystal Reports makes it easy to create simple reports, and, it also has the comprehensive tools you need to produce complex or specialized reports. Create any report you can imagine Crystal Reports is designed to produce the report you want from virtually any data source. Built-in report experts guide you step by step through building reports and completing common reporting tasks. [. . . ] For complete details please consult the Microsoft Web Development Center http://msdn2. mi crosoft. com/en-us/library/ms532849. aspx. Older versions of Crystal Reports cannot open reports with Flash objects Reports created with embedded Flash objects cannot be opened by previous versions of Crystal Reports. Users who attempt to open the report receive the following error message: This document could not be opened. This document has the expected file extension (. RPT), but it seems to be corrupted. Crystal Reports 2008 SP0 Release Notes 17 3 Workflow Issues Options to Create Blank and Selection for Calculation not available Options to Create Blank and Selection for Calculation not available After creating new reports the two menu options Create Blank and Selection for Calculation do not appear when selecting an existing embedded group label. This is because new calculated rows and columns do not have group values by default. You cannot insert after or reference rows or columns without group values. This may work with old reports because the context menu that edits the header text modifies the group value. The new behavior modifies the group label. No Upper Bound and No Lower Bound options display as 0 Crystal Reports displays zero (0) as the upper bound when the No Upper Bound or No Lower Bound option is chosen. When creating a report using no upper or lower bounds, you can provide information in a text object to note this. With the "no bounds" limit appearing as 0, this can confuse users, who do not expect to see certain data. For example, consider the following data: [-10, -5, 0, 10, 12, 20, 30]. Setting No Lower Bound and an upper bound of 15 displays as: [0 to 15] but negative numbers are returned as part of the data set: [-10, -5, 0, 10, 12]. 'Not HasValue or' clause not appended When a parameter that is used in the selection formula (record, group or saved data) is changed from non-optional to optional, the clause not Has Value() or is not appended to the front of the condition. 18 Crystal Reports 2008 SP0 Release Notes Workflow Issues Optional parameters appear the same as mandatory parameters 3 Optional parameters appear the same as mandatory parameters Because optional parameters (parameters having no value) are not distinguishable from regular parameters, users may be confused by the parameter prompt, or they may be unaware that the value is optional. It is recommended that report designers clearly indicate to the report end-user that a parameter may be used as optional. The prompt text in the parameter's definition is customizable through the designer. Users may have difficulty removing an optional parameter's value. It can be done by using the Delete button in the Parameter Panel toolbar. Prompting for parameters during save During a Save operation of a report, you are prompted for viewable parameters that are entered into the saved data record selection; however, the saved data record selection does not cause a report refresh. Search controls in Safari The Search and Go to Page controls do not work properly in Safari in the . Net viewer. If you press Enter, no text is found, or the indicated page is not retrieved. To use the Safari Search control, enter your search string, then click Search. Reports do not appear in local language Both the Language Code and the Country Code must be set as the Locale in order for reports to be displayed in the local language. The report remains in English if only the Language Code is set. Crystal Reports 2008 SP0 Release Notes 19 3 Workflow Issues Smart Measures not supported Smart Measures not supported Crystal Reports does not support Smart Measures, even though the Information engine may. Do not use Smart Measures in the Crystal Reports Query Panel. Sort control does not work in sub-reports Clicking a sort control on a sub-report has no effect. This is because a sub-report may contain shared variables which affect the main report during a sort operation. Because the main report may have changed after sorting, the sub-report might no longer exist. Cannot save reports with special characters to CrystalReports. com When reports with special characters in their names are saved to CrystalReports. com, the following error message is displayed: The specified object name () must be at least 1 character long and can't contain the following characters: !# = +*%$@, ;:? Sub-report views close If a report contains a group selection formula with either parameter fields or print time formula functions, then upon opening the report any drill-down or sub-report views that were saved with the report may be closed. OLAP reports created in previous Crystal Reports versions For some OLAP reports created in previous versions of Crystal Reports, you may encounter errors when opening those reports using the Webform or Winform viewers. 20 Crystal Reports 2008 SP0 Release Notes Workflow Issues Winform printing limitations 3 Winform printing limitations The Winform viewer does not support centering and scaling when printing. Crystal Reports 2008 SP0 Release Notes 21 3 Workflow Issues Winform printing limitations 22 Crystal Reports 2008 SP0 Release Notes Display Issues 4 4 Display Issues Limited barcode field width Limited barcode field width The default field width for barcodes is 16 characters. [. . . ] Open a command prompt as Administrator. Note: You must run the command line as Administrator to enable and disable DEP. To restore DEP to the Windows Vista default, use the following command: bcdedit. exe /set nx OptIn Optional and interactive parameter prompts do not always function correctly 32 Crystal Reports 2008 SP0 Release Notes Developer Issues Web projects with embedded reports migrated to Crystal Reports 2008 will not contain new configuration settings in the Web. config file 6 when a Web Services report source is used If you are using a Web Services report source with the . NET Webform viewer, optional and interactive parameter prompts may not function correctly. Optional parameters may be treated as required parameters, and when multiple users view a report simultaneously, parameters become shared. Web projects with embedded reports migrated to Crystal Reports 2008 will not contain new configuration settings in the Web. config file If you are migrating an existing . NET 2. 0 Web project to Crystal Reports 2008 that uses embedded reports, your Web. config file will be missing new settings that can be used to configure how the report is compiled into a DLL by the Build Provider. Your website will continue to run normally without these settings, however, to take advantage of the new configuration features, open up your Web. config file and add the following elements: <configSections> <sectionGroup name="businessObjects"> <sectionGroup name="crystalReports"> <section name="rptBuildProvider" type="CrystalDeci sions. Shared. RptBuildProviderHandler, CrystalDecisions. Shared, Version=12. 0. 2000. 0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyTo ken=692fbea5521e1304, Custom=null"/> </sectionGroup> </sectionGroup> </configSections> <system. web> <compilation debug="true"> <buildProviders> <add extension=". rpt" type="CrystalDecisions. Web. Compi lation. RptBuildProvider, CrystalDecisions. Web, Ver sion=12. 0. 2000. 0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyTo ken=692fbea5521e1304"/> </buildProviders> </compilation> </system. web> Crystal Reports 2008 SP0 Release Notes 33 6 Developer Issues User paper sizes not displayed correctly <businessObjects> <crystalReports> <rptBuildProvider> <add embedRptInResource="true"/> </rptBuildProvider> </crystalReports> </businessObjects> To learn more about how to configure embedded report compilation, see Configuring your Web. config file in the Crystal Reports . NET SDK Developer Guide. Note: If you add a new report to your project after upgrading to Crystal Reports 2008, the tags will be automatically added to your Web. config file. User paper sizes not displayed correctly The PrintouputController. modifyUserPaperSize method has no effect if the disassociate page size and printer paper size setting is enabled in a report. [. . . ]