Comments on: Making Up Data Part I: Personal Data Providers

By: Evelyne PERRIER

Evelyne PERRIER — Wed, 18 May 2011 08:43:31 +0000

Hi Dave
Your post is very helpfull. Thanks a lot.

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:59:39 +0000

Neither. The data is in the report.

By: Ram

Ram — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:31:59 +0000

Hi Dave,

there is a server called Crystal Report Cache server and there is no server called Web Intelligence Cache server. As far as Webi is concerned there are two servers Webi report server and job server. Where the cached data get stored? which server does it ?

Regards,
Ramanathan S

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:24:03 +0000

If the data provider is marked as non-refreshable, then it doesn’t have to continue to exist. I can import the data from my spreadsheet, mark the data provider as non-refreshable, and remove the file without impacting the report at all. The data is cached inside the report. That means the report can be scheduled as well.

One of the rumors for 4.1 is that we can publish a spreadsheet to the repository, and then reference that sheet in my Web Intelligence report, and because it (the spreadsheet) is now an enterprise resource, it can be refreshed. Even during a scheduled refresh.

By: Ram

Ram — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:04:03 +0000

Hi Dave,

Is a report created using personal data provider can be scheduled?(I dont have access to WRC thats y I need your help)

Can u please confirm this too…

Regards,
Ramanathan S

By: Ram

Ram — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:52:34 +0000

Hi Dave,

In the above post you have said that “In fact I can delete the file from my computer altogether and the report will still work”.

without the source file in desktop how the reoport can run?
Can u please confirm this..

Regards,
Ramanathan S

By: Arti

Arti — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:54:28 +0000

Hi Dave,

First of all I’d like to thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I first started with BOB forumtopics and then I found your site. Your style of explaining these several topics is amazing. its more of like out of the box thinking.

Many Thanks
Arti

By: Jamie Whyte

Jamie Whyte — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:46:59 +0000

Dave, this is great, thanks. I have a problem that this goes some way to resolving:

I have an aggregated chart which shows the number of people who have had a child plan, by how long the plan has been in place for, in months. This is generally between 0 and 24 months, but they can stretch to 48 months, but these are rare. I need the chart to show the month numbers where there is no data, so it is clear to a report reader that the 48-month plans are that much further away from the 24 month plans.

My problem is that this max of months is not necessarily 48 months. It could be any value. I need the chart to somehow know the last value, and only display up to that, as at the moment, I am having to either manually apply a filter at report time (hinders scheduling) or accept that the chart will have a load of empty data at the end of it (looks clumsy).

I feel like I’m missing something with variables maybe, but can’t get what I’ve tried to work.

Any help gratefully received

Many thanks

Jamie

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:48:13 +0000

Hi, Ravi, please see Part II of this post for a solution more like what you described.

http://www.dagira.com/2009/12/05/making-up-data-part-ii-using-universe-data/

By: ravi

ravi — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:48:30 +0000

Hi Dave,

It’s nice seeing new tricks every time I visit your blog. For the above trick I’ve faced similar kind of situation where I’ve used a different way as follows:

I’ve added a new query(Q2) to the same report where I’ve taken only ‘month’ object in Q2 and then merged with the month dimension object in Q1, then used ‘month’ object from Q2 in the report which shows the months with zero(0) values as well. All worked fine.

Do you have any suggestions for me if I’m wrong ?

Cheers

Ravi