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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

It has been a while since I started my career as developer looking at data in different forms and formats. Doing the critical thinking and then coming up with presentable way which end users can easily understand and make their daily decisions. During this vast period (About 14+ years to date) I have spent, doing

April 14th 2013 –  Stafford Park – Houston TX Aziz Rehmatulla Memorial Cup has been played for years between best of Indian and best of Pakistani originated Houstonians. This is the best cricket tournament featuring not only the best players to play this game in Houston but also an event which attracts people from all

Excited to be playing with TOG Americas and TOG Badshah’s in Houston Cricket League. Please make a note of this schedule and save the image to your computer or mobile devices if needed for quick look. This should help everyone to plan the availability for games this summer. Best of Luck and lets go unbeaten

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

This is first time I have seen any live Cricket game involving an International Cricketer and what an exhilarating experience to watch the sheer power and technique of International Cricketer. Umar Akmal did not disappoint me with his batting performance. It was very kind and humble gesture by him to not only attend this game

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