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Crystal Reports Server XI - A subset of Business Objects Enterprise?

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Post Author: RVM

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I'm evaluating Crystal Reports Server XI with a view to fulfilling the reporting requirements of my Client. I've identified Crystal Reports Server XI as the ideal solution and have been looking for documentation that describes the constituents of CRS XI and the architecture of the product from a technical perspective. I haven't been able to locate an administrators guide for CRS XI similar to the one available for crystal Enterprise 10 and Business Objects Enterprise XI R2. I've read that CRS XI is a subset of Business Objects Enterprise XI and as such has the same arichitecture. COuld some please clarify what constituents of BO Enterprise XI also reside within CRS XI?

Thanks in advance,

RVM

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Post Author: yangster

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Yes you can achieve what you are after by creating a business view.To track down the business view admin guide go to the documentations on this site and navigate to Crystal enterprise 10.None of the features have changed within the Business Views from X to XI.This site is not very user friendly for beginners

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Post Author: RVM

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Yangster,

Much appreciated. That clarifies things a lot. Another question though, if I may! One of the things my client would like is to restrict the data accessible to report developers. The scenario is that you have report developers from several departments creating reports, with a SQL Server 2000 dB as the data source. The requirement is to restrict developers to only a subset of tables relevant to their business area. I was wondering if I could use business views to do this. I haven't been able to track down any detailed documentation on how to use business views, so any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

RVM

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Post Author: yangster

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It is kind of annoying that they didn't bother to create any documentation for Crystal Server XI.I've used both products and the key difference is that Crystal Server XI is limited to 20 user licenses (combination of either named or concurrent types) so if you have a very large user environment then your only choice may be BO XI.In terms of development and deployment the key difference between the 2 is that BO XI allows you to create universes. Which in terms allows you to use the Webi functionality. You can still use webi in Crystal Server but that's kind of pointless as the only universes you will be able to report off are sample universes. Within Crystal Server you will still have all the functionality that exist in BO XI with the exception of the universes so you can still build business views, list of values, schedule reports, create custom calenders, etc. So if you were to just snip out everything that deals with universes in the BO XI admin guide you'd have the Crystal Server admin guide.