Recommended replacement for Field Definition File (TTX) based reports?

[Former Member]

We have about 90 legacy reports based on old TTX (Field Definition Files) that are built in source code. It was mentioned that these types of files are deprecated and are not going to be supported in the next runtime release.

What is the proper way to design and populate reports based on variable data from source code? DataTables seem to be out, as is TTX. We'd like to start moving to the new proper format. Thanks!

Kyle

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

Hello Kyle

Please see the blog [How to use reports based on multiple TTX files in Visual Studio .NET|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/18897].

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Reading through that, and the PDF this is what I deciper:

TTX (Field Definition Files) have been deprecated and are not supported in 13.0.X 64-bit, nor will they be supported in 14.X for 32-bit or 64-bit. The proper solution is to convert to XML schema definitions (XSD) from TTX files, and then send the data in via ADO xml?

Is that right or is there something better?

Thanks,

Kyle

[saurabh_pathak · Accepted solution]

It's correct, you would have convert that to XML and use ADO.NET(xml) for connection.

- Saurabh