Crystal reports / BO question to visualisation

[Former Member]

Dear Crystal Reports / BO experts,

I have a special question regarding data consumtion from a Crystal Report or BO dashboard.

Is it possible in general to "call" a Crystal report or other BO other from a standard Dynpro (yes, I mean Dynpro) screen.

I could imagine including an HTML control to include a Crystal report.

Is there any way to submit a Crystal report and submit data from an SAP system?

I think about a similar scenario like exporting data from an ALV list viewer to a Crystal report.

Is there an interface? How would I design the corresponding data source in Crystal reports to realize such a scenario?

Thanks,

Michael

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

Doing a bit of reading on Dynpro:

DynPro is a dynamic, fast-growing information systems consulting firm specializing in SAP, CRM, e-Business and Custom Applications.

I wonder if starting with asking Dynpro will be the 1st step(?). E.g.;  to "call a Crystal report or other BO other from a standard Dynpro (yes, I mean Dynpro) screen", you'd want to know what SDK would Dynpro support?

- Ludek

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hm, I guess there is some misunderstanding. Dynpro is the "old" SAP proprietary user interface technology in which most of the applications of SAP Business Suite still are running.

The newer technology is WebDynpro.

Interesting there is a company, also called DynPro. But that's not what I meant.

Thanks,

Michael

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

I no nothing of "Dynpro is the "old" SAP proprietary user interface". Not sure how old it is, but currently CR ships only .NET and Java SDKs. So, unless Dynpro supports those languages, the idea will probably be a non starter. Looking here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Dynpro, there is a statement:

As of 2010, Web Dynpro for Java is effectively dead, and all effort is spent on Web Dynpro for ABAP.

So, it may be an idea to ask in one of the ABAP SCN Spaces. This document lists all of the SCN Spaces, including ABAP.

- Ludek

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

OK, my question is actually.

Can you "feed" a Crystal report with data from outside, e.g. via a webservice? Or does the architecture only allow to define a data source within a CR and then get the data via pull using various methods of the backend system (like webservices, BAPI calls etc.)?

BTW: The statement 'Java WebDynpro is effectively dead' is not really true. MDM still uses it.

It is more about the general direction if ABAP is preferred over Java.

Like in MDM: Recommendations go in direction Master data governance, which is ABAP based, so naturally the ABAP WebDynpro is preferred.

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

Consuming web services is possible. How to create reports in the designer off of web service, see this link:

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kena/classes/7818/f08/lectures/lecture_7_crystal_reports.pdf

There are many other resources, SAP and 3rd party on this, but I like this one.

For runtime solution using .NET see This wiki. It has pretty good info on how to. The wiki was written in CR 10.2 times, but will apply to all subsequent versions of CR.

- Ludek