Help! Crystal Reports integration w PS

[rachellerfald]

We currently have PeopleSoft v8.9 licensed and Crystal Enterprise loaded on our machines. We've created our queries in PS and developed the report in Crystal. Now we need to integrate the two so that the user can generate the report and view the output directly from PeopleSoft. We can't run the report from Excel since we need a process to load data onto a temp table.

Can anyone tell me how the integration between PS and Crystal works via a Run Control process? Is there any special set-up or code that will grab the report for Crystal and return it to PS? Unfortunately, we are in an outsourced IT situation and don't have developers around to ask these types of questions. Thanks!

 

[satinsilhouette]

Rachel,

There is a white paper on Oracle.com that is called Crystal Reports for People Soft and there is also a Business Objects XI R2 Integration Kit for PeopleSoft Installation and Configuration Guide on Business Objects that might lend you some insight as to how the two play together.

Thanks!

Thanks so much!
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[jmanj]

As far as I know the only crystal product that works with PS is the one supplied by PS itself. Your crystal enterprise may or may not work with PS because of some hooks between the applications. You can also call crystal and have them do it but it's much cheaper to get it from PS.

Outside of integration we did have crystal enterprise but we used ODBC connectivity to access the database (oracle).

 

[satinsilhouette]

No the integration kit has the native drivers and process to get an outside BOXI to work with PS.

Thanks so much!
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