User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS CRYSTAL REPORTS 2011 RELEASE NOTES

[. . . ] To display, print, and download documents and manuals in PDF format, follow the link and see the Product Guides section. See http://www. sdn. sap. com/irj/sdn/businessobjects-downloads http://www. sdn. sap. com/irj/sdn/businessobjects-articles http://service. sap. com/bosap-support Read the entire document before installing your SAP BusinessObjects software. Issues are sorted by functional category and in ascending order by ADAPT tracking number. 3 SAP Crystal Reports 2011 - Release Notes SAP Crystal Reports 2011 Functional Correctness ADAPT01386585 Crystal Reports 2011 does not support SUSE 11 Crystal Reports 2011 does not support Linux SUSE 11. However, Crystal Reports for Enterprise supports Linux SUSE 11. ADAPT01453802 Crystal Reports . NET SDK Custom Add-in does not work Crystal Reports . NET SDK is no longer included with the Crystal Reports 2011 installation, so the custom addin for Crystal Reports . NET SDK may not work. Visit SAP SDN for more information for Crystal Reports . NET development. ADAPT01462262 Custom add-ins and launching reports If you have applied custom add-ins to your Crystal Reports program, Crystal Reports must be running before you can open a report. 4 SAP Crystal Reports 2011 - Release Notes Installation (TICM) ADAPT01440288 Updated Java UFL configuration paths Java UFL configuration paths have been updated in the following locations: jar files: <install_dir>\SAP BusinessObjects\Crystal Reports 2011\java\lib <install_dir>\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4. 0\java\lib; jdk: <install_dir>\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4. 0\win32_x86\jdk CRConfig. xml: <install_dir>\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4. 0\java 5 SAP Crystal Reports 2011 - Release Notes Security ADAPT01454695 Only Administrators can create and edit Business View reports in FIPS mode On a system that is running in FIPS mode, you need to have Administrator privileges before you can create or edit a Business View report. 6 SAP Crystal Reports 2011 - Release Notes SAP Crystal Reports General Issues Functional Correctness ADAPT00264642 Blank pages are printed when the "Suppress printing if no records" option is enabled If a user attempts to print from an empty report, or attempts to print an empty selection from a report, a blank page is printed, even when the "Suppress printing if no records" option is enabled. ADAPT01048220 Pure IPv6 networking will not be supported in Crystal Reports components on nonWindows platforms SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise supports IPv6 networking in mixed (IPv4 and IPv6 enabled) and pure (IPv6 only) environments. [. . . ] The original parameter can then be manually deleted from the report. ADAPT01417972 Using a 32-bit database on AIX To use a 32-bit database middleware on AIX, a 32-bit database client environment must be added to LIBPATH32. ADAPT01418867 Teradata 13. 10 drivers are recommended for Solaris The Teradata 13. 00 driver is not compatible with the ODBC level 2 driver. To fix this issue, use the Teradata 13. 10 driver on Solaris. ADAPT01425477 Accessing SAP BEx hierarchies for time dependent dimensions If you are working with an SAP BEx query, you may not be able to see all of the hierarchies for time dependent dimensions. You cannot see the hierarchies that are not valid for the current date. In order to view these hierarchies, the query must contain a key date variable. 12 SAP Crystal Reports 2011 - Release Notes ADAPT01426122 Auditing and publications that contain reports created in Crystal Reports 2011 The following events are by design, but may not be expected. When the Report Application Server (RAS) processes a publication, a view event is triggered and appears in the Auditing database under the following circumstances: · The publication contains source documents that are created in Crystal Reports 2011. · The publication uses a dynamic recipient source in Crystal Reports 2011 format. ADAPT01427812 Text variables are not supported in report content Crystal Reports does not support text variables in report content. ADAPT01427899 The Crystal Reports SAP BW Query data driver is no longer supported In Crystal Reports 2011, SAP BW connectivity using the Crystal Reports SAP BW Query driver is no longer supported. There are two options: you can change the driver to the SAP BW MDX driver; or you can migrate the report to Crystal Reports for Enterprise if you do not want to save your report to the BW repository. Use an existing SAP BW MDX data connection, or create a new SAP BW MDX data connection, to replace the old SAP BW Query data connection. To migrate your report to the Crystal Reports for Enterprise SAP BEx Query Data Access driver: 1. Follow the migration wizard to set the data source location to Crystal Reports for Enterprise SAP BEx Query Data Access. ADAPT01432005 Modify custom WebLogic IMB web application servers to connect to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise If you try to connect to an SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise server and you have written your own web application deployed on WebLogic web application server, you may encounter the following error: "com. crystaldecisions. sdk. exception. SDKException$ConfidentialChannelFailed: Failed to establish confidential channel. " This may be due to the classloading preference of the WebLogic application server where it loads the application server's own classes instead of the classes in your web application. To fix this problem, modify the weblogic. xml descriptor by adding the following configuration option: <weblogic-web-app> <container-descriptor> <prefer-web-inf-classes>true</prefer-web-inf-classes> </container-descriptor> </weblogic-web-app> 13 SAP Crystal Reports 2011 - Release Notes ADAPT01434265 Viewing transparent areas of charts or images in Crystal Reports When using WebLogic as the web application server (on a UNIX platform) to view a Crystal report that has transparent charts or images, you may notice that areas that should be transparent are not. To display the report correctly, set the following option in the JAVA_OPTIONS environment variable before you start WebLogic: "-Djava. awt. headless=true" ADAPT01438978 Conflicts between SAP Security Plug-in and SAP DB drivers SAP roles imported in SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise using SNC are not able to view reports. The SNC name used by the SAP authentication plugin to import SAP roles cannot be specified in the SNC Access Control List (ACL). To work around this conflict, specify a separate SNC name to be used for the SAP database drivers. Create a separate certificate file with all the required configuration details. For more information, see "Configuring SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise for server-side trust" in the "SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide. " 2. In the Central Management Console, go to Authentication > SAP > SNC Settings. Provide all the configuration details under "SNC name of Enterprise system". Note: The SNC name configured above is not the same name used to import SAP roles into the system. ADAPT01439991 If the destination value is empty when scheduling a publication to print, the default printer will be used When scheduling a publication to a printer, a "Printer Name" event is detailed under the destination event. If the destination value is empty, the publication will print on your computer's default printer. ADAPT01446249 Oracle Nclob data types must be mapped to Longtext Crystal Reports currently does not support Oracle NClob data types in a query when they are defined in the universe as "String" types. Instead, map them to Longtext. ADAPT01450519 Exporting multiple line text to CSV format in Crystal Reports 2011 If a text element has multiple lines of text, the text is displayed in a single line when it is exported to CSV format. The same issue occurs if the text interpretation configuration is set to RTF Text or HTML Text. 14 SAP Crystal Reports 2011 - Release Notes ADAPT01456791 The Number of Rows retrieved from a data source may not be the complete number if rows continue to be retrieved after the event begins The Number of Rows event detail is retrieved from a data source when an event begins. [. . . ] However, in the unlikely event of a problem arising that requires changes to the underlying SAP data connectivity, SAP BusinessObjects may not be able to address it completely after March 31st, 2014. Note that SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise is not affected by this issue. It is recommended that you transition to SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise if you intend to use SAP BW Data Access. 21 SAP Crystal Reports 2011 - Release Notes Security ADAPT01448663 Crystal Report document right CeReportRightID. DOWNLOAD updated The Crystal Report specific document right (CeReportRightID. DOWNLOAD) has been replaced with the generic content-type agnostic right (SecurityIDs. SEC_ID_DownloadFileRight). This change provides better consistency and greater security by enforcing security at the lowest level of the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise system. [. . . ]