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 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 .
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.
For more information about the configuration, see SAP Solution Manager under
.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:
Note
These settings are client-specific. Therefore you can define for each client if users can use 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:
(transaction SALV_CRL)
Note
You need the correct authorization to import and export layouts (authorization object S_GUI).
To display lists with Crystal Report Layouts, you must set up the following:
In SAP List Viewer for SAP GUI choose
. 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
You need the relevant authorizations to save ALV layouts (authorization object S_ALV_LAYO).