Administrating Crystal Reports 

Use

Administrative tasks may arise in the following areas when working with Crystal Reports in SAP NetWeaver BI as a result of the integration architecture and changes to the system landscape:

·        Publishing Crystal reports using Crystal Enterprise

·        Adjusting the server installation settings

·        Synchronizing the directory structure in Crystal Enterprise and in the BI system

·        Updating the management of Crystal reports in BI roles

Integration

For more information about the integration architecture and process, see Crystal Reports Integration and Creating and Distributing Crystal Reports.

Prerequisites

Before you can implement and, if required, manage formatted reporting with Crystal Reports, you need to have modified the required system settings for the integration of Crystal Enterprise and the configuration of formatted reporting. These are found in Customizing.

The following activities are particularly important (see: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide -> SAP NetWeaver  ® Business Intelligence -> Links to Other Systems -> Crystal Enterprise Integration):

·        Crystal Enterprise installation

·        Setting up authorizations

·        Connection between Crystal Publisher and BW

·        Setting parameters for URLs

·        Setting logon groups

·        Setting parameters for SSO

·        Security management Crystal Enterprise

Features

In the BI system, the following SAP reports have been made available for the various administrative tasks involved in integrating Crystal Reports:

Managing Crystal Reports (RSCR_ADMIN_REPORTS)

This report allows you to delete Crystal Reports and to re-start publishing with Crystal Enterprise.

Checking Installation Settings  (RSCR_CHECK_INSTALLATION_PARAMS)

You usually only need this report when setting up the system. In the “Prerequisites” section of the SAP Customizing Implementation Guide, see the “Crystal Enterprise Installation” activity.

Clean Up Role Tree (RSCR_ROLES_REORG)

Only use this report when cleaning up the role tree is absolutely necessary. This is the case when you have removed a number of references to Crystal Reports in role maintenance (transaction PFCG).

Update Role Structure(RSCR_SYNCHRONIZE_ROLES)

We recommend that you schedule this report to run once a day.