I recently had a customer who was in the process of migrating from a legacy version of Microstrategy to BusinessObjects. They had been able to migrate over most of their core reports, but there were several reports that required a number of custom groups. Microstrategy’s approach was to allow the customer to define any number […]
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Set Analysis Part 4b: Creating FreeHand SQL or Importing
A less common way to create sets is to create sets is through free-hand SQL. Normally you will want to leverage to power of the set engine to design the SQL for you to return the correct results, but in rare cases you might find it helpful to create your own SQL Statements. Free Hand […]
Deploying BusinessObjects with wdeploy
Deploying BusinessObjects XI on remote web servers just go a whole lot easier! BusinessObjects has always been easy to install when you take the default settings and do a single server installation, but what about when you are trying to install BusinessObjects across a number of different web servers. As Murphy’s law dictates, the documentation […]
Getting the most out of BusinessObjects
I often get asked about getting the most out of BusinessObjects, so I thought I would take a few moments to mention an often overlooked factor is being successful with BusinessObjects. What do companies need to do to make their investment in BusinessObjects pay off? There are the obvious things such as creating a Center […]
Embedding Web Controls into Crystal Reports
Bringing Together HTML Controls and Crystal Reports Every once in a while I get a chance to present in a forum or user group and show some new amazing capabilities in the product suite. Last year I had the chance to demonstrate WebElements. WebElements is a collection of Crystal functions which generate HTML. An easy […]