CrystalReports.com / BI OnDemand Articles
crystalreports.com provides the capability to securely share reports and dashboards with many users. Business Intelligence OnDemand uses crystalreports.com as the front-end and adds data warehousing with live WebIntelligence capabilities and other features. Since they are offered on the same platform, we have kept them together within the Business Objects Community.
Within this space, you will find documentation, how-to videos, whitepapers and other content to help you make the most of these services.
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View Time Security for Crystalreports.com
This white paper demonstrates a method for implementing view time security within a Crystal Report hosted on crystalreports.com.15 Mar 2009
Implementing crystalreports.com with Salesforce.com
Software-as-a-Service solutions can offer very short time frames to get a solution up and running for end users. When using crystalreports.com, this is also true particularly when compared to on-premise BI solutions. The following document attempts to provide you with some recommendations for quickly delivering a crystalreports.com solution to Salesforce.com.09 Jan 2009
Desktop Publisher User's Guide.pdf
The Desktop Publisher is a client based scheduler for scheduling your reports locally against your data sources and then publishing them to crystalreports.com. The Desktop Publisher can publish not only Crystal Report files, but other file types such as: Web Intelligence, Xcelsius swf files, PDF, TXT, and MSFT documents (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). You can either schedule/publish single documents or folders with documents to crystalreports.com. This guide will walk you through installing the Desktop Publisher on your machine as well as configuring your scheduled tasks.20 Oct 2008
Live Office for crystalreports_com.pdf
Users are able to use Live Office to connect Excel, Word, and PowerPoint to reports on crystalreports.com.20 Oct 2008
Connecting Crystal Reports to Salesforce.com through a Proxy Server
Please see the following document for instructions on how to connect to Salesforce.com if your organization has a proxy server between you and the Internet.01 Sep 2008
crystalreports.com 07 2008 release
The crystalreports.com 07 2008 release provides feature updates to the crystalreports.com platform.27 Aug 2008
Hyperlinking from a Crystal Report to Salesforce.com
Crystal Reports has a method to dynamically hyperlink from a report to another URL. This URL could be a web site, another document (on crystalreports.com), or to a record in Salesforce.com (among other options). This example shows how to link from a report to a Salesforce.com record.30 Jun 2008
Using Salesforce.com SOQL queries in Crystal Reports
This document guides a Crystal Reports designer on how to design reports against salesforce.com using SOQL (Salesforce.com query language). This document also provides links to force.com explorer which helps a designer construct a SOQL statement.05 Jun 2008
crystalreports.com within Salesforce.com (for non-administrators) User Guide
This User Guide is intended for non-administrator users of crystalreports.com within Salesforce.com.04 Apr 2008
Connecting to Salesforce.com with Crystal Reports
You are able to connect Crystal Reports XI r2 to Salesforce.com data to build reports. Crystal Reports 2008 comes with the Salesforce.com driver automatically. When you upload reports that you build with Crystal Reports up to crystalreports.com, you can have your reports fully integrated and served up to Salesforce.com users from within Salesforce.com. The attached whitepaper explains how to work with this driver, improve performance, working with proxies, etc and has application to users working with both CR XIr2 and CR 2008.04 Apr 2008
Connecting Crystal Reports to Salesforce.com
You are able to connect Crystal Reports XI r2 to Salesforce.com data to build reports. Crystal Reports 2008 comes with the Salesforce.com driver automatically. When you upload reports that you build with Crystal Reports up to crystalreports.com, you can have your reports fully integrated and served up to Salesforce.com users from within Salesforce.com. Attached is the documentation for using this driver. It was written from a Crystal Reports XIr2 perspective but many concepts apply to Crystal Reports 2008.04 Apr 2008
Documentation -- Report Hyperlinking within crystalreports.com
Report hyperlinking is a powerful feature within crystalreports.com. Using a URL, you are able to link to documents on crystalreports.com. These URLs include powerful parameters. For instance, you can define whether the URL runs the report real-time or views a latest instance. You can define dynamic report parameters for data selection to a report. You can also define single sign on parameters for Nsite and Salesforce.com to call reports seamlessly from these applications. Within Salesforce.com, this functionality allows you to easily embed reports and dashboards from crystalreports.com into s-controls and tabs. You can also provide report links directly from Salesforce tabs such as Accounts or Opportunities that pass parameters to the report (like the Account Name) in order to have contextual reports.21 Mar 2008
Context-Aware Reporting in Salesforce.com
The standard integration of crystalreports.com within Salesforce.com is the crystalreports.com tab. The tab is a great starting point and will be the way that users can access any report within crystalreports.com. However, this is not the only way to integrate content from crystalreports.com within Salesforce.com. You can use the “Hyperlink” or “OpenDoc” feature to embed reports and dashboards into Salesforce.com with URLs (with no coding required). There are a number of different ways to do this including calling a document in a tab, an s-control, or via a custom link. This report could be dynamic (so based on who and where the user is within Salesforce.com) or not dynamic (so a tab could call the same latest report instance for all users). In the attached document, we will look at what it takes to set up a dynamic report called by a Custom Link within Salesforce.com.07 Jan 2008
crystalreports.com Web Services Partner API
crystalreports.com is now offering a beta version of its web services for developers to build on demand applications that use reporting. crystalreports.com APIs give you the ability to quickly and easily Embed crystalreports.com into your on demand application.01 May 2007
crystalreports.com for salesforce.com 3.0 Installation Guide
Installation guide for using crystalreports.com in Salesforce.com 3.027 Apr 2007
Crystal Reports SalesForce Driver 3.0 Installation Guide
With Crystal Reports XIr2, you are able to connect to Salesforce.com to build reports by downloading the Salesforce.com driver. This installation guide is based on CR XIr2 but can provide insight into how to work with the driver in CR 2008 as well.01 Apr 2007
Crystal Reports for Salesforce 3.0 Report Design Best Practices
With Crystal Reports XIr2, you are able to connect to Salesforce.com to build reports by downloading the Salesforce.com driver. This best practices guide is based on CR XIr2 but can provide insight into how to work with the driver in CR 2008 as well.01 Apr 2007
crystalreports.com for Salesforce.com 3.0 User's Guide
With Crystal Reports XIr2, you are able to connect to Salesforce.com to build reports by downloading the Salesforce.com driver. This user guide is based on CR XIr2 but can provide insight into how to work with the driver in CR 2008.01 Apr 2007