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Prerequisites

Installation

You first have to have installed the necessary components locally in order to display Crystal Report Layout, such as, Crystal Reports Viewer for SAP Business Suite Applications.

For more information on the installation, see SAP Note 1353044 and SAP Service Marketplace http://service.sap.com under   Downloads   SAP Software Distribution Center   Downloads   Installations and Upgrades - Entry by Application Group   SAP Application Components   SAP ERP   or also under SAP SCM, for example.

You must use the Crystal Reports Designer (Crystal Reports 2008 SP2 or higher) to be able to create Crystal Report layouts of your own. Note the valid licence conditions for SAP BusinessObjects.

For more information, see Creating Generic Report Layouts.

For more information on Crystal Reports, see SAP Help Portal http://help.sap.com under   SAP BusinessObjects   All Products   Crystal Reports  .

General Prerequisites

This function requires SAP GUI for Microsoft Windows.

This function is only available for SAP List Viewer for SAP GUI (ALV Grid), Web Dynpro ABAP ALV, and POWER Lists.

You need Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or higher to display Crystal Reports in Web Dynpro ABAB ALV.

For more information, see SAP Note 1366785.

Configuration

For more information about the configuration, see SAP Solution Manager under   Solutions/Applications   Basic Configuration   Configuration Structures  .

Customizing
Using Crystal Reports Layouts

in Customizing you specify that users can displayed data shown in ALV using Crystal Reports Layout. You have to set this up separately for SAP List Viewer for SAP GUI (ALV Grid) and Web Dynpro ABAP ALV in Customizing for SAP NetWeaver:

  •   SAP Web Application Server Customizing   SAP List Viewer (ALV)   Maintaining Web Dynpro ABAP-Specific Settings  

  •   SAP Web Application Server Customizing   SAP List Viewer (ALV)   Maintaining SAP GUI-Specific Settings  

Note Note

These settings are client-specific. Therefore you can define for each client if users can use Crystal Report Layouts.

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Managing Generic Crystal Report Layouts

You can upload generic Crystal Report Layouts of your own, download or delete existing Crystal Report Layouts, and specify the system guidelines.

You manage generic Crystal Reports layouts in SAP NetWeaver Customizing:

  •   SAP Web Application Server Customizing   SAP List Viewer (ALV)   Managing Generic Crystal Reports   (transaction SALV_CRL)

Note Note

You need the correct authorization to import and export layouts (authorization object S_GUI).

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Application

To display lists with Crystal Report Layouts, you must set up the following:

  • In SAP List Viewer for SAP GUI choose   Settings   Layout   Change  . On the View tab, set Crystal Reports as your preferred view.

  • In Web Dynpro ABAP ALV choose Settings and set Crystal Reports on the Display tab as your preferred view.

Note Note

You need the relevant authorizations to save ALV layouts (authorization object S_ALV_LAYO).

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