Comments on: What We Do Without Business Objects Knowing About It…

By: Mick Arundell

Mick Arundell — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:23:35 +0000

In BO 5.1 I could change the universe that a query used without changing the other queries. Lovely, I have a number of similar universes, make one correct query, copy it and change the underlying universe and bob’s your uncle.
with BOXI when I change the universe in 1 query it insists on changing the universes in all queries.

Next:
5.1 I could 1) choose which reports in a set to print AND get the page numbers to run consecutively

in XI both are missing.

What I would really like is a way to include comments in reports, queries and variables so that other developers can understand my efforts.

Another thing is a way to export all variables to a formatted text file to use as report validation.

Mick

By: Paulo Felipe

Paulo Felipe — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:54:52 +0000

If my memory is correct, it wasnâ€™t until the XI release that we could actually repoint a Web Intelligence document from one data source to another.

You’re correct. I’m struggling with that in 6.5, by the way.

Can’t wait for the XI migration…

By: Anita Craig

Anita Craig — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:20:25 +0000

Amen, Dwayne! I was so disappointed in how Crystal worked when I took a class — I think full-client BusinessObjects is actually more powerful as well as user-friendly.

And BusinessObjects didn’t seem to know that full-client was so good. I can’t begin to say how stunned I was when “Bernard” introduced Crystal 2008 as their “flagship product” at the conference last year!

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:26:01 +0000

I agree. We were running just fine on 6.5 with our desktop intelligence corporate reports using linked universes with no issues. It was a little slow. XI came out and broke the linked universes and said they were not supports. That scrapped XI until XIR2 came out and I think it was SP2 or so that the linked universes were actual “fixed” again. Now with XI 3.0 & 3.1 the linked universes are “broken” again. Sometime I want to scream, what code base are you starting at when you start on a new course?

By: Dwayne Hoffpauir

Dwayne Hoffpauir — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:04:01 +0000

Amen to the topic title! I am convinced that BusObj had little idea how far their customers had “evolved” with the full client reporting tool. So many tips and tricks and workarounds and VBA enhancements developed by real users meeting real reporting needs, but that BusObj themselves (at the least the product marketing folks) seemed to have little insight into. When BusObj bought Crystal, the marketing spin was “now we offer an enterprise reporting tool.” WRONG! The classic full client tool has been doing pixel perfect, complex calculation type of reporting for a LONG time.