HI, I am a new user of Business Objects XI and Crystal Reports. I’ve been on a CR course and will on a BO course next week but I wanted to get the very basics going first.
I have to design a universe (possibly more than one) and create a number of reports.
I created a simple universe, added 2 tables from the source DB and then exported it. Crystal complained that the Universe had no objects. So I created a Class and an Object, selecting 1 column from 1 of the tables (hopefully I will learn what these are on the course!) and tried to export it. I got “Parse failed: Cannot load dll”.
This sounds to me like something fundamental is wrong with the BOE installation. Which dll can’t it load and why not?
Looking in the forums, the only other mentions of this error talk about invalid SQL which seems a bit wierd to me. Anyway, here is the SQL of my object:
Whatever connectivity it takes to get to your repository seems suspect - when you installed, you may have missed something there (oracle, mysql, etc). Also, you need that client installed to complete the loop.
Just a guess, but the fact it happened at export makes that a decent guess . Welcome to the jungle : )
Actually, I mis-explained! the dll error was occuring when I tried to parse an object and I have fixed that one. I get a different error when exporting the universe. I will post that error once I get back on the network to find it out.
I have also twigged (actually, I riffled through my BOE book) what classes and objects are and what they are for.
What B suspects and me too, is that not all software needed is installed.
You also need to databasesource software in some form.
If the source is oracle: you need to install oracle client software and update tsn-names
If mssql-odbc did you need to add the connect to the database to your local odbc
and so on.
Hi,
This is only because you need to update the tnsfile in your system. You can go to --start—type ‘run’–type ‘cmd’–then a window opens up (black background)–type ‘regedit’–now a new window opens up for ‘Regedit Editor’–check whether your data base ‘Oracle/Sql’ is installed and thus might be listing in the list showing—write down the ‘Path/location’ of the file—close the window. Now go to --start–Computer–C://-- (follow the path or location you had written down–For Example: Start–Computer–C://–MASTER–oracle/sql–product–10.0.0/11.2.0–client_5–Network—______) and see whether you have an ‘Orafile’ saved at this location. If not then you need to contact your DBA team or Manager and ask for the ‘tnsfile’ and save it at this location. If you are unable to save the tnsfile at this location then you need to contact the admin team and ask for help. You will not get any errors.
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to fix this error.
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