SAP-Crystal Report (CR) XI R2 DEVELOPER 2006

1.1 Supported Platforms

• Supported Operating Systems - Report Designer
  - Windows 2000
  - Windows XP Professional
  - Windows Server 2003 SP2 (All 32-bit and 64-bit Editions)

• Minimum Hardware Requirements
  - 450 MHz or higher Pentium-compatible CPU
  - 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM. 256 MB recommended. 4 gigabytes (GB) maximum
  - 1.0 GB free disk space for patch
  - CD-ROM or DVD drive

• Hardware Support
  - Crystal Reports® is supported running on 32-bit versions of Windows running on x86 and x64 CPUs made by AMD and Intel.
  - Crystal Reports® is supported running on 64-bit versions of Windows running on x64 CPUs made by AMD and Intel.

• Microsoft .NET Framework components require the .NET 1.0 or .NET 1.1 runtime.

• Java components require a J2EE 1.3.x or J2EE 1.4.x compatible runtime.

• Development Platforms
  - Visual Studio .NET 2002
  - Visual Studio .NET 2003
  - Visual Studio .NET 2005

• Report Designer Component (RDC)
  - Visual C++ 6.0
  - Visual Basic 6.0

1.2 Supported Application Servers

Applies To : All components within the Crystal Reports Developer Edition that run within an application server, including:
- Java DHTML Viewers
- .Net Webform Viewers
- COM DHTML Viewers
- ActiveX Viewer
- Java Runtime Component (JRC)
- Redistributable applications that embed the reporting engine.

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1.3 Supported Browsers

All DHTML Viewers (including the .Net Webform viewers) and the ActiveX Viewer.

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1.4 Application development

1.Java Reporting Component (JRC) : The Java Reporting Component contains many new features. For more information on these features, see the Java Reporting Component API Reference.

• The JRC now supports dynamic locations for graphics.

• The JRC now supports exporting to editable RTF and CSV formats.

• The JRC now supports XML data sets as a run-time data source.

• The JRC now includes APIs for new server-side functionality:
  - Saving reports to the file system (using ReportClientDocument).
  - Printing and exporting (using the print output controller).
  - Setting parameters (using the parameter field controller).
  - Setting database logon (using the database controller).

• The JRC now has updated Locale support with setLocale.

• The JRC now provides a sample that demonstrates how to use Plain Old Java Objects (POJO) as a data source for reports.only included in the Developer Edition of Crystal Reports.

2. Crystal Reports .NET : Crystal Reports .NET contains many new features. For more information on
these features, see the Crystal Reports .NET Online Help.

• Crystal Reports fully supports the new ClickOnce deployment of Windows applications introduced in Visual Studio 2005.

• Code snippets for Crystal Reports are available when building Web Sites or Windows projects using Visual Basic.

• Several improvements have been made to the CrystalReportViewer control.

• Accessibility has been improved in Crystal Reports .NET.

• Crystal Reports .NET supports international characters through Unicode and GB18030-2000, the Chinese character encoding standard.

• In Crystal Reports .NET, the Preview tab has been added to the embedded Crystal Reports Designer to enable you to preview reports at design time.

• Project templates can be selected when creating a new web site or Windows project

3. Crystal Reports

• COM DHTML Page Viewer, COM DHTML Advanced Viewer, COM DHTML Parts Viewer, COM DHTML Grid Viewer, Java Grid Viewer, and Java Advanced Viewer.
  The Page and Parts viewers have equivalent replacements in .NET in XI currently, and the Advanced Viewer and Grid Viewer features will be considered for addition to the .NET Webform viewer in the Future
  Release. The ActiveX viewer is not being deprecated.

• RDC (Report Design Component). This deprecation includes both the RDC SDK and the embedded Visual Basic designer.

• The .NET, Java, and COM Mobile Parts Viewers. Trends in mobile technology indicate that more mobile devices are able to consume plain HTML, making mobile specific viewers unnecessary. In BusinessObjects XI Release 2, support will be added for the Blackberry Enterprise Server

4. Report Application Server

• RAS COM SDK.

• Connection Directory Manager.
  The capability provided by this feature will be replaced with repositorybased connection objects.

5. COM SDKs : COM (Component Object Model) SDKs in Crystal Reports and BusinessObjects Enterprise

• COM is a Microsoft technology and Business Objects will follow the trends setby Microsoft for support of this technology. At the time of writing, Microsoft has announced that COM-based development tools, such as Visual Basic 6 and Visual C++ 6, will become unsupported over the next few years. Visual Basic 6 will be unsupported in March 2008 and Visual C++ 6 will be unsupported in September 2005.

• COM SDKs from Business Objects will be supported in BusinessObjects XI Release 2 for a period of 3-5 years after the release of that version. This means that a supported COM SDK solution will be available until support for BusinessObjects XI Release 2 is retracted in the 2008-2010 time frame.
  The migration path for these technologies is described below.

6. Separated Values (CSV)

• Several important changes have been made to this feature:
  - There are new options to control how report/page/group sections appear in the CSV export.
  - The feature now respects conditional suppression in your report.
  - The output is now in UTF-8 format.

• An option, called “Legacy Mode,” has been provided to ease the migration of existing reports. All customers are encouraged to move to “Standard Mode” as soon as possible.

• For more information, go to http://support.crystaldecisions.com and search for boe_xi2_csv_export.pdf.

1.5 Permissions Required

• Must have Administrator privileges on the computer.
  The installation process creates registry entries and may update some system files that require Administrator rights.

• If your network Administrator has copied the Crystal Reports installation files to the network,
  make sure that you have been given read privileges on that network.