Hi BaaNs,

We have many reports developed / customised in BaaN.

We use c4 / SQL/NT

I want to know,

1) how do i develop crstal reports in BaaN.

2) is there a crystal development environment thats invoked from within BaaN.

3) What products required. like BaaN version Patch; from Crystal ....?

I will highly appreciate your lead, quick guides .... samples

thanks

VISH

The only tool that integrates Crystal is IBAAN. Crystal Decisions and Baan have combined to give you the capability to send any Baan report into Crystal format. Crystal Enterprise is the only product they offer that allows you to create reports off their native Baan driver. Their other tool, Crystal Reports is a stand alone product, and while it can report off of many data sources, it is not licensed to use the Baan driver. That doesn't mean that you can't report off your Baan data. If it is in MS SQL server then it is accessible that way. Crystal is a separate development environment from Baan. For more info you can contact Crystal at www.crystaldecision.com and they will be happy to talk to you.

The Crystal Baan Driver will work with Baan IVc and any porting set from 6.1c02 upwards. This driver works through the Bshell to access your database from both Crystal Reports and Crystal Enterprise, but is only sold with Crystal Enterprise. The driver provides many features when developing reports in Crystal Reports such as enum conversion, table and field discriptions read from the Baan dictionary, Baan text handling.

Only the ability to push standard Baan reports into Crystal Enterprise requires Baan IVc4 SP9 then giving forms software functionality to improve the layout of standard Baan reports.

For more information or training please contact myself.

Stewart Oakden
www.bsp-uk.com

We've got a longer thread on that issue within the finance forum here:

http://www.baanboard.com/baanboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1569