List objects used in a series of reports

system · August 21, 2008, 11:05am

Ok. Thanks for the reply.

agowinuk (BOB member since 2006-08-25)

system · October 7, 2008, 9:20pm

Can someone assist me in getting this to open? I’m assuming it is a Crystal Report file and I should be able to open in CR XI.

When I try, I get an error message that says:
This document has the expected file extension (.RPT), but seems to be corrupted. If this report used to work, try opening it with a different version of Crystal Reports and if that still does not work, please contact your administrator.

I’ve tried both the XI and v5,v6 files and get the same message from either.

Any pointers to show me how to use this?

Many thanks!
Norman

neheyen (BOB member since 2006-08-22)

system · October 8, 2008, 5:39pm

What would give you that idea? The .rep extension indicates a full client (now called Desktop Intelligence) document. Manually changing it to .rpt is not going to make it a Crystal Reports document, sorry.

Dwayne Hoffpauir (BOB member since 2002-09-19)

system · October 24, 2008, 3:13pm

I have a question about this… Im working with the download for 6.xx and wondering; We have a universe created that gives us backend information about users, groups, universes, etc. On the report from the download, Im trying to create/add a dataprovider to go after information with this backend universe we have. In the universe weve got an object called “Universe Name” that is created from table/field, universe.M_UNI_C_LONGNAME. On the report, Im linking this object to the Object, Universe Name which on the download is DataRow(5) = DProv.Universe.LongName in the code. (I changed this from 'DataRow(5) = DProv.Universe.ShortName & “-” & DProv.UniverseName).
The data that comes back is identical but its not working. The VBA code is working properly, listing only the universe(s) used in the report(s). But the object from my new dataprovider is giving me all universe names that we have, and Im just expecting the universe name(s) that are on the selected reports. Im wondering.is the VBA code executing before or after the dataprovider is refreshed? Reason why I’m here is that I use this awesome download to list the information about a report but I’m also trying to get more info about the universe…I also want the table and field names of each of the objects on the report…

Hope I explained myself ok!
thanks!!

nonyup (BOB member since 2008-01-07)

system · November 14, 2008, 3:27pm

agowinuk:

Hi Dwayne,

I know this is an old thread now and you probably barely use the report, but I have a question.

I’ve adapted the code in this report by adding the code to retrieve user-defined variables and also enabling the report to look in sub folders. This all works fine (with a lot of help from a collegue), but it stumbles whenever a document it opens contains Document_Open macros designed to auto refresh. I have somewhere in the region of 2000 documents for the code to go through, so this will take an age to process all the documents designed to refresh on open (it also crashes on a number of them where they are set up to save a copy or email out etc). Basicaly, my question is “can I avoid the Document_Open command on opening?”.

I have tried a number of work arounds, including restricting the users ability to refresh reports (in Supervisor), but this disables the data provider, restricting access to the universe.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Andy

PS working on BO 6.5.1 on Oracle 9

Will it be possible for you to provide the code which can retrieve objexts used in user defined variables?
Thanks,
Kumar

mkumar (BOB member since 2002-08-26)

system · November 18, 2008, 1:42pm

Try this … List report level variables in full client reports

Dwayne Hoffpauir (BOB member since 2002-09-19)

system · November 25, 2008, 5:39pm

Hi Dwayne,

Reviewing your code, I could improve it, including SQL objects. How can I send it to you, to posted in the forum?

Maybe it could be helpful

Leonardo

leonardo.contreras (BOB member since 2008-07-07)

system · December 1, 2008, 11:04am

Hy,

I’ve read your post and I am very intersted with your code for the two next pbs :

enabling the report to look in sub folders
avoid the Document_Open command on opening

Thank’s for your help

Ty_Bou (BOB member since 2005-02-16)

system · December 1, 2008, 2:32pm

Take a look at the latest version of this utility … Save for all users. It includes a technique for recursively processing a folder structure.

As previously stated in this thread, I don’t think there is a way to prevent the Document_Open event from firing.

Dwayne Hoffpauir (BOB member since 2002-09-19)

system · December 30, 2008, 10:11am

Code below is the main change, in the Dwayne’s code, to process Manual Querys.

                'code included to process Manual SQL Querys.
                Else
                  'Processing Manual Providers
                  If DProv.GetType = "DPSQLC" Then
                     DataRow(3) = DProv.Name
                     DataRow(4) = "SQL"
                     DataRow(5) = "SQL Manual"
                     DataRow(6) = DProv.Name
                     DataRow(7) = ""
                     For Each Col In DProv.Columns
                        DataRow(8) = "Field"
                        DataRow(9) = "Variables"
                        DataRow(10) = Col.Name
                        DataRow(11) = ""
                        Call dpCube.DpVBAColumns.AddLine(DataRow)
                     Next Col
                    End If
                End If

Maybe it helps

Bye

leonardo.contreras (BOB member since 2008-07-07)

system · January 28, 2009, 6:37pm

Is there any limit on the number of documents it can process? I cannot run this macro for 600+ reports.

BOisBest (BOB member since 2004-04-05)

system · January 29, 2009, 4:54pm

Works great …thanks

pravin_kadambi (BOB member since 2005-05-18)

system · January 29, 2009, 6:40pm

Well, apparently there is a limit … smile … but not by design. It may help if you could describe exactly what you mean by “I cannot run this macro” … error message, unexpected result, crash, other?

Dwayne Hoffpauir (BOB member since 2002-09-19)

system · January 29, 2009, 6:42pm

Step through the code, and tell me what line generates that error. Also, what version of Business Objects are you using?

Dwayne Hoffpauir (BOB member since 2002-09-19)

system · January 29, 2009, 7:31pm

I found the problem…works super…thanks once again for your reply…

pravin_kadambi (BOB member since 2005-05-18)

system · January 29, 2009, 8:22pm

Care to share the solution, in case it helps anyone later on?

Dwayne Hoffpauir (BOB member since 2002-09-19)

system · April 2, 2009, 2:39pm

Does anybody know if this is part of the standard functionality in XI R3.1 ?

RikDeclercq (BOB member since 2006-09-28)

system · April 10, 2009, 5:24am

Is it possible to find the fields used in the crystal reports by doing this way?

Thanks,
-JB

Jayabal (BOB member since 2009-01-05)

system · May 20, 2009, 8:53am

Hi All,

I want to add two more column in this reports.

DP Query (This should give the whole SQL query of the Data Provider)
2 ) Promtps (This should give the List of prompts in the report).

If anybody has idea please suggest how to go for it.

Regards,
Shahnawaz ALam.

YARAHMAT786 (BOB member since 2009-05-20)

system · May 27, 2009, 6:24pm

This request doesn’t fit “neatly” into the existing model. The sample VBA code below will pop up a message box for the items you requested. You should be able to adapt the properties it uses to a new tab in the original model.

Sub ListSQL()
    Dim DProv As DataProvider
    For Each DProv In ThisDocument.DataProviders
        MsgBox DProv.SQL
    Next DProv
End Sub

Sub ListPrompts()
    Dim Var As Variable
    For Each Var In ThisDocument.Variables
        If Var.IsUserPrompt = True Then
            MsgBox Var.Name
        End If
    Next Var
End Sub

Dwayne Hoffpauir (BOB member since 2002-09-19)