Unable to upload/publish crystal report to BI Platform

[Former Member]

Dear Experts, Our cyrstal report users encounter an error while publishing/adding crystal reports to Enterprise BI Platform. The error is

'This error occurred: Adding Crystal Report "Report_Name.rpt" failed. The report contains a desktop data source connection that cannot be saved to SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform. To save the report to BI Platform, open it in the SAP Crystal Reports designer application and set the data source location to a BI Platform connection.'

This error occurs for all the reports the user/administrator try to publish to the BI Platform. Here are the steps followed to publish the report -

1. I am logged on to the BI Launchpad
2. I navigate to my favorites folder
3. I click on add new document
4. I select from local file
5. I point to the locally stored crystal report (already run and tested in CR as working)
6. I go to upload and I receive error message
7. I have tested to see if it is the report itself but this does not appear to be the case.

SEE Error screen shot attached.

Please advice the root cause and solution to fix this error.

Thank you.

[onkarvelhals]

Hi Aravind,

The data source looks local to the desktop machine. e.g xml/excel files etc.

If you are using similar connection, you may need to create it on server to.

Open the same report from CR designer (same version as that of BI server) and try to save it to BI Enterprise directly.

Ensure that you use data source connection which is accessible from server machine.

Regards,

Onkar

[Former Member]

I am using the Administrator account to publish the report.