Hello
I am a Project Manager of a project of developing reports in Crystal 11.
The idea is to develop reports on top of the content in MS SQL tables.
The initial testing and demonstration to the customer is done within the Crystal development environment.
In a later stage, we need to integrate the reports with C# WPF application, using Crystal control.
We currently use ODBC connections.
We want the flexibility to set the actual database dynamically, by using the "default database" of the ODBC connection (or any other way). In other words, we want not just the flexibility to change the database server, but work with different database names, like "ProductDB_TEST", "ProductDB_PROD" etc. - without changing the report.
Unfortunately, we got the answer from the developer that the database name should be pre-defined for a given report. Although the connection can be set to another server, the DB name cannot be set dynamically.
Looking into the "Database" -> "Show SQL Query" menu, we see the following piece inside the query:
INNER JOIN "DATABASE_NAME"."dbo"."IncidentTypeSnapshotData"
So it looks like the query itself contains the DB name.
Is it really a limitation of Crystal, or rather the developer working on the project doesn't know the trick?
Thanks for any hint
Max
