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The book name is ‘Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports’. I was approached by PACKT publishing to do the review of this book. The content was very well written and I was impressed by the professional way of handling the process of getting book written, reviewed and then suggestions or corrections requested were done.

If you are a “Crystal Developer” and have designed Bar/Pie charts using chart expert, this tip might be helpful for you if you are facing the issue I was when working for a client who are on XI R2, exact details of version are provided below. Note that this could apply for some older versions

SAP Business Objects Explorer is powerful Analytical tool which can help business analysts or end users get answers in very intuitive way. My first exposure to it was at client migrating their old cubes to Business Objects explorer version 3.1. I must confess it was “not” love at first sight but soon I started to

I like to invite you to join me at the 2012 ASUG SAP BusinessObjects User Conference, September 10-13, 2012 in Orlando, Florida.  I’ll be speaking at this is content-rich educational event for people using SAP BusinessObjects solutions. The session I will be leading is:  Case Study: Breakthroughs in SAP Dashboard Design (Xcelsius) Integration with SAP

I have not been a fan of Cross-tabs ever since I started to work with Crystal Reports version 7. I always like to to take time and design my reports in comfort and care them like my favorite bicycle i use to own. But anyways, we dont get luxury all the time to design the

With introduction on OpenDocument method developers are now able to design reports and call other reports hosted on BOE environment. This is very powerful feature and almost nullifies the use of Sub-Reports in Crystal reports. We can now drill down or Drill up from report based on the value of the field on which you

Open Document method is very powerfull tool which could be utilized in “Drill Down” and “Drill Up” kind of reporting without the need of creating ‘Sub-Reports”. The video added to this article will demonstrate steps to do this. This also helps you in performance as its calling a different report and passing the parameter values

This Post details on how to build LOVs within Universe and use them in Crystal Reports. The benefit of building LOVs in a Universe is that you do not have to maintain these LOVs using Business Views and CMC. The LOVs will be part of the Universe on which you are building the report and

This is exciting news to many of developers who wants to have Crystal Report behave just like the way WebI merges the dimensions when adding multiple queries to a WebI document. And No, I am not proposing to have a Sub-report. Make sure to click on ‘Read More’ button to view the “Video” and watch

Cameron International played perfect host to the ASUG – Texas Houston chapter meeting. This was my first time speaking at any of the ASUG chapter event. The audience were great considering the bad weather we had in morning. I think about 60+ made to the event out of 90 registered to this event. After introduction