Using Crystal Report

This section describes how to use the Crystal report.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: Crystal Reports are used to generate reports in Excel format. User can generate following types of reports:
  • Sample Material DRC Report
  • Costing DRC Report
  • Sample Order DRC Report
  • RFQ RC Report

Prerequisite

This section describes the prerequisite for using Crystal Report.

  • The following are prerequisites to generate the Crystal report:


    • Crystal Report XI R2 sp5
    • Crystal Report Server XI R2 sp4

Configuring Crystal Reports

This section describes how to configure the Crystal Reports.

  • The following properties in the emxSystem.properties file located in the <server install path>/STAGING/ematrix/properties directory must be set for the Crystal Report, please add the below lines if the following lines do not exist:

    # Example: emxFramework.CrystalReport.ReportAppServer = servername

    emxFramework.CrystalReport.ReportAppServer =

    # Specify User name and password of user which has been used to publish reports. Default is Guest.

    emxFramework.Common.CrystalUserName=Guest

    emxFramework.Common.CrystalUserPassword=

Configuring Crystal Reports Server Setting

This section describes how to configure the Crystal Reports Server Setting.

  1. Edit the CRConfig.xml and add the appropriate CLASSPATH.

  2. Copy zym-rptproxy.jar, zym-core.jar, eMatrixServletRMI.jar, FcsClient.jar, FcsClient.jar and zym-reporting.jar to the Crystal Report Server.

  3. Make change to the CRConfig.xml (located in C:\Program Files\Business Objects\common\3.5\java\CRConfig.xml)

  4. Include zym-rptproxy.jar as the Java Bean and include zym-core.jar and zym-reporting.jar in the classpath like this:

    <Classpath>? ;<folder name>\zym-core.jar; <folder name>\zym-reporting.jar;<folder name>\FcsClient.jar;<folder name>\eMatrixServletRMI.jar </Classpath>

    <JavaBeansClassPath>? ;<folder name>\zym-rptproxy.jar </JavaBeansClassPath>

  5. Deploy report rpt to the Crystal Report Server. The rpt is located at <rmi server location>\STAGING\ematrix\additional

Deploy the Crystal Reports jar files to ENOVIA

This section describes how to deploy the crystal reports jar files to ENOVIA.

  • Copy the jar files under Crystal Reports Tomcat folder to ENOVIA

    Example:

    Copy C:\Program Files\Business Objects\Tomcat\webapps\businessobjects\WEB-INF\lib\*.jar C:\Tomcat\Tomcat_port10000\webapps\enovia\WEB-INF\lib

    For the other setting, please follow the ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator for Design and Development Install Admin Guide.