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Query Design: BEx Query Designer

Function

Type of Change

Description

Enhancements in BEx Query Designer

Enhanced

The following enhancements have been made in BEx Query Designer:

  • For selections and formulas, you can specify whether a node is to be expanded or collapsed in the structure for a hierarchical arrangement of structure elements. This property applies to the executed query and is unaffected by the status of the node in Query Designer. See Selection/Formula/Cell Properties

  • You can now delete the default values for variables directly in the variable editor and in the Properties pane. See Default Values.

  • Autocorrection of Exceptions and Conditions: If a structure element is used in the definition of a condition or an exception, and the structure is inconsistent, the system displays an information message in the Messages area and automatically corrects the structure. See Definition of Exceptions and Definition of Conditions.

  • When defining exceptions and conditions, you can use formula variables in place of fixed values.

  • You can sort the objects of the InfoProvider alphabetically in increasing or decreasing order or revert to the default order. See Defining New Queries.

  • If a characteristic has a compound characteristic, the compound characteristic is added automatically during the drag and drop action or when copying and pasting. The compound characteristic is always added to the characteristic restrictions of the filter. See Defining New Queries.

    For local selections in structure elements, the compound characteristics of the local selection are added if they are do not already belong to the query's characteristic restrictions. See Defining Selections.

Tabular View

Deleted

The Tabular View mode has been removed from Query Designer. In place of this, BEx Report Designer offers various options for creating formatted reports.

Effects on Existing Data

Queries that were created with an earlier version of Query Designer and had settings made for them for a tabular view are not changed. Since the tabular view is no longer supported by the Java runtime however, these settings no longer have any effect.

You can reconstruct the tabular view on the data using Report Designer.

Options for Top-Down Distribution in BEx Query Designer

New

In BEx Query Designer, you can now make settings for top-down distribution that you want to use as part of BW-Integrated Planning in the properties of structure components.

Using top-down distribution, you can specify that aggregated values, such as values in results rows or inner hierarchy nodes, are to be disaggregated and can therefore be set as modifiable.

More information: Selection/Formula/Cell Properties

Removing References in Reusable Structures

New

In BEx Query Designer, you can now remove references in reusable structures. This enables you to use a reusable structure as a local structure in a query.

More information: Creating Reusable Structures

Removing References in Reusable Filters

New

In BEx Query Designer, you can now remove references in reusable filters. This enables you to use a reusable filter as a local filter in a query.

More information: Filter

Document Display in BEx Query Designer

New

In BEx Query Designer, you can now display the documents for a query and for reusable query components (filters, variables, structures, and calculated and restricted key figures).

The documents are called in the document browser where, in addition to displaying existing documents, you can also create or upload new documents.

More information:

Functions in the Query Menu

Reusable Query Components

Switchable Query Components in the Switch Framework

New

All query components that are not reusable (characteristics, attributes, structure elements, conditions, exceptions and cells) are now switchable in the Switch Framework. This allows you to more extensively control the visibility of the query components that are supplied with the Business Content.

The switchable query components can be assigned to individual switches in the Switch Framework. The assignment of switches to Business Functions shows or hides the query components. You can activate the business functions and then make a limited number of assigned elements visible. This means that you only see the required Business Content query components in the system. The other components remain hidden, but you can activate them. Besides being able to use business functions and switches from the BW system, you can also replicate the switches of the source system business functions (including their status) in the BW system.

The connection to the Switch Framework is also used for performance optimization. Every switchable query element that is not active is processed as if it were defined in the query.

Effects on System Administration

If you are operating the Switch Framework, you can now use it to influence the queries.

More information:

Switchable Query Components in the Switch Framework

Replicating Switches

Settings from BEx Query Monitor Now in BEx Query Designer

New

The Data Integrity and Read Near-Line Storage As Well settings are now available in BEx Query Designer in the Query Properties on the Enhanced tab page. These settings were previously available in BEx Query Monitor.

In BEx Query Designer, these properties can now hold variables.

More information: Query Properties

BI Release for Classic InfoSets

New

You can use (classic) InfoSets of an application system for operational reporting with BI tools that access BEx queries on InfoProviders, without needing to create a data model in the data warehouse of SAP NetWeaver BW or replicate the data. To do this, you can release the InfoSets in the InfoSet maintenance.

An InfoSet property is provided for releasing BI Content InfoSets. With customer-defined InfoSets, you can specify this property in the original system of the InfoSet. InfoSets with a homogenous result structure are suitable for this property. The system creates an InfoProvider for the InfoSet at runtime. This InfoProvider is used for data access from within the BI tools. This InfoProvider is called TransientProvider (derived from the classic InfoSet). Allocating the TransientProvider to an InfoArea makes it easier to find the TransientProvider in the tools of the SAP Business Explorer.

Effects on Customizing

To use InfoSets as TransientProviders, you need to configure BI settings in your application system. To do this, run report RSRTS_ACTIVATE_R3IS.

More information: Releasing an InfoSet for Analysis with BI Tools

BEx Web

Function

Type of Change

Description

BEx Web Application Designer

Changed

  • Input Help for Entering New Data Records

    If you want to enter new rows within the scope of manual planning, go to the Web item parameters in BEx Web Application Designer and specify how many new rows to display and where to display them. Input help is provided for entering a new data record. Note that you can only select the keys for the characteristic values in input help.

    More information: Planning Business Data Manually

  • Entering New Rows in Web Application Designer

    In a Web template, new rows appear for a characteristic or its attributes if, in Query Designer under Start of the navigation path Properties Next navigation step Technical Name End of the navigation path, you have chosen the Text display for this characteristic. The restriction stipulating that there must be at least one key representation therefore does not apply.

    More information: Planning Business Data Manually

BEx Web Design API

Enhanced

The following commands for planning applications are new or have been enhanced. These are commands that you can include for planning applications using the command wizard in Web Application Designer.

Enhanced:

New:

Execute a Planning Function (New)

More information: Sources for Characteristic Selection and Variables

Web Design API: Commands for Variables

New

  • Commands for Variables

    Using the commands wizard in Web Application Designer, you can include commands for variables in Web templates.

  • Enhancing the Context Menu with JavaScript

    You can now enhance the context menu in web applications with commands that you create using JavaScript.

    More information:

    Adding Menu Entries with JavaScript

Flicker-free display of Web applications

New

BEx Web applications can now be displayed flicker-free. Only Web template objects changed by navigation are updated. Flicker-free display is set using the Web template parameter USE_SNIPPETS.

More information: Web Template Parameters

Setting the option for a flicker-free update of Web templates can change the system behavior. This applies in particular to Web templates that the methods onLoad(), onUnload() have overwritten. The behavior can be modified through the system by making a change to the metadata.

For more information, see SAP Note 1177038 Information published on SAP site.

Row selection in the Analysis Web item

New

For the Analysis Web item, you can use the Web template parameter Start of the navigation path Behaviour Next navigation step Row Selection End of the navigation path to specify whether the user can select one row or multiple rows. You have the following options:

  • If row selection is set to None (NONE), users cannot select any rows.

  • If row selection is set to Single (SINGLE), users can select one row only, and there is no roundtrip to the server.

  • If row selection is set to Single with Command (SINGLE_WITH_COMMAND), users can select one row only, but the system starts a roundtrip to the server and can perform activation and deactivation commands.

    Example

    Row 1 is active. You now select row 2. The system executes the deactivation command on row 1 if necessary and deactivates row 1. The system then selects row 2 and executes the activation command on row 2.

  • If row selection is set to Multiple (MULTIPLE), users can select multiple rows. If a command is to be executed on all selected rows, this command cannot be specified with the row selection. It must must be executed using a pushbutton instead.

Analysis Web item

Enhanced

The following features have been added to the Analysis Web item:

  • Using parameter ANALYSIS_ITEM_MODE, you can specify whether to display the Analysis Web item using the standard display or as plain HTML.

  • Using parameter USE_SCROLLBARS, you can specify whether to insert a vertical or horizontal scroll bar for page navigation.

  • Using parameters PAGING_TYPE_ROWS and PAGING_TYPE_COLUMNS, you can specify the scrolling behavior for the rows and columns. You can scroll either by page, row or column.

  • If the display hierarchy is active at runtime, the hierarchy levels are vertically indented in the columns.

  • At runtime, you can select rows and columns by clicking the row or column headers or by clicking a cell in the row or column. To deselect the row or column, click it again.

  • The colors for the hierarchy display and for the title blocks in the analysis grid can be set using portal themes.

  • Calling the context menu and drag and drop actions no longer depend on the text in a cell, but on the entire cell. It is therefore now possible to use drag and drop and call the context menu on empty cells.

  • You can now sort the characteristic values or structural components of the analysis grid according to your requirements using drag and drop, thus setting the sequence of given values. This function is also available in hierarchies, for example to move sibling nodes.

  • Using the Modification parameter (MODIFICATION), you can individually define the behavior of a table and how it is displayed. Using modules, you can adjust the table structure and table rows.

More information:

Analysis

Analyzing Data in an Analysis Grid (with Navigation and Filter Panes)

Context Menu Functions

Analysis Web Item: Using Parameter Modification

Filter Pane Web item

Enhanced

The following features have been added to the Filter Area Web item:

  • You can now edit the Filter Pane Web item for multiple data providers simultaneously. The corresponding parameter Affected Data Providers (LINKED_DATA_PROVIDER_REF_LIST) has been added.

  • Using the Text Wrapping parameter, you can specify that a line break is inserted in the text for the descriptions of the characterisics and that the Filter Area is not widened.

More information: Filter Pane

Navigation Pane Web item

Enhanced

The following features have been added to the Navigation Pane Web item:

  • You can now use parameter NAV_FREE_CHAR_SORTING to activate or deactivate the alphabetical sorting of the free characteristics.

  • You can use parameter NAV_CHARACTERISTIC_SEL to specify a list of the characteristics that are to be displayed as free characteristics.

More information: Navigation Pane

Custom Extension Web Item

New

Using the Custom Extension Web item in BEx Web Application Designer, you can insert your own HTML or JavaScript into your Web applications. You create your own ABAP classes for this. For more information, see SAP Note 1110636 Information published on SAP site.

Map Web Item

Enhanced

The Map Web item contains the following enhancements:

  • Dynamic geo-characteristics are now supported in the Map Web item.

  • The Map Web item now has a geo-function bar which offers various functions for navigating in the map.

  • In the Map Web item, you can now select Change Drilldown and Filter, as well as the corresponding subentries from the context menu.

More information:

Map

Navigating in Maps

Functions in the Geo-Function Bar

Link Web item

New

Using the Web item Page Break, you can specify where to insert a page break in your Web applications, when the Web application is exported in PDF format. You can do this by positioning the Web item on the required place in the Web application.

More information:

Page Break

Scatter Chart and Time Scatter Chart

Changed

The required structure of data providers for scatter charts and time scatter charts has changed.

Values displayed on the X axis are no longer taken from the first data column. They are taken from the first data row instead. The values on the Y axis are taken from the remaining data rows and are no longer taken from the remaining data columns.

More information: Class 2 Chart Types

Navigation in Charts

New

You can now change the drilldown of charts by drag and drop. Here you use the same procedure as when navigating in the data of an analysis grid.

Example

You have a bar chart with the category Sales Channel and the series Net Sales. For example, you can now examine the Fax sales channel more closely. Drag the characteristic Product Group in the free characteristics onto the Fax bar. The system displays a new bar chart that shows the net sales for the sales channel Fax in relation to the product groups. End of Example.

Context Menu Functions in Web Applications

Changed

The following context menu functions in Web applications have been changed or enhanced:

  • Back: Back One Navigation Step / Back to Start

  • Broadcast and Export: Export to Excel

  • Calculations and Translations: Global Currency Translation

  • Calculations and Translations: Calculate Single Values as… / Calculate Results as…

  • Calculations and Translations: Cumulate After Applying Details and Result Calculations

  • Sort: Sort key figures in increasing or decreasing order

More information: Context Menu Functions

Drag & Drop in BEx Web Applications

Enhanced

To improve performance during analysis in BEx Web applications, the navigation using drag and drop in the Analysis and Navigation Pane Web items has been improved and enhanced.

More information: Analyzing Data in an Analysis Grid (with Navigation and Filter Panes)

Scroll Bars in BEx Web

New

The value lists in Web dialog boxes now contain vertical and horizontal scroll bars for easy navigation.

Local Calculations in Web Applications

Enhanced

The following new functions are available in Web applications for the local calculation of single values:

  • Minimum of Values That Are Not Zero, Null, or Error

  • Moving Minimum Value

  • Maximum of Values That Are Not Zero, Null, or Error

  • Moving Maximum Value

  • Summation of Rounded Values

More information: Calculate Single Value As...

Ad Hoc Formula Definition in BEx Web

New

In BEx Web applications, you can now use a formula to make an ad hoc recalculation of key figures in a structure. You can save the formula definition in the query view and also reuse it as a data provider for other BEx applications, if required.

More information: Defining Formulas Ad Hoc

Presentation Hierarchies in the Input Help Dialog

Changed

In the BEx Web input help dialog, you can now filter characteristics with display hierarchies that are not active. You can filter these characteristics according to hierarchy nodes and hierarchies leaves. Previously, this was only possible for active display hierarchies.

For characteristics with active display hierarchies, it is now possible to filter according to single values.

You have the following options for display hierarchies:

  • If there is an active display hierarchy for a characteristic, you can filter the characteristic according to single values, hierarchy nodes, or hierarchy leaves.

  • If there is a display hierarchy for a characteristic and this display hierarchy has been deactivated, you can filter the characteristic according to single values, hierarchy nodes, and hierarchy leaves, as well as define value ranges.

More information: Selecting Filter Values

New Features in the Input Help Dialog

New

The following new features are available in the input help dialog in BEx Web:

  • You can exclude values from the selection.

  • You can change the sequence of the selected values by using arrow icons.

  • For time characteristics, you can now select calendar days from a calendar rather than from a list of values.

More information: Selecting Filter Values

Web Browser Dependencies Web Applications under Firefox

New

Analysis in BEx Web applications in Firefox is now fully supported.

Setting the Size Restriction for Result Sets

New

You can define the size of the result set in Web applications. You can use an ABAP report to do this. The default setting is 500,000 cells.

Effects on System Administration

To define the size of the result set, use ABAP report SAP_RSADMIN_MAINTAIN.

Effects on Customizing

If you have already queried more than the default size of 500,000 cells and want to query more cells, define the required size for the result set using the specified report.

More information: Setting the Size Restriction for Result Sets

User-Specific Variants

New

You can now create user-specific variants in the Variables screen.

More information: Creating Query Variants

Export Library for SAP Business Explorer

New

The Export Library for SAP Business Explorer is a component of the BEx Java Web runtime. It allows you to export PDF, PostScript, and PCL files from BEx Web applications. It is optimized for exporting complex documents and, as part of SAP NetWeaver, is available on all platforms supported by SAP NetWeaver. The Export Library can be used in the scope of the export scenario in the Business Explorer as an alternative to Adobe document services. This does not affect user interaction or the user interface in BEx Web applications.

Effects on Customizing

To activate or deactivate the Export Library for SAP NetWeaver Business Explorer, changes must be made in cross-client customizing table RSPOR_T_PORTAL (transaction SM30) in the BW system. If you want to use further fonts in addition to the standard font delivered by SAP (Arial Unicode J), these fonts must be stored in the directory on the Java Server specified in the RSPOR_T_PORTAL table in the Directory of Fonts (PDF) entry field.

More information: Activating Export Library for SAP Business Explorer and SAP Note 1112132 Information published on SAP site.

Personalizing Variables in Web Applications

New

You can personalize variables in BEx Web applications and display them in the variables screen.

For more information, see SAP Note 1109331 Information published on SAP site.

Effects on Customizing

To personalize variables, you have to activate personalization in Customizing.

More information:

Personalizing Variables in Web Applications

Restrict input help in the Variables screen

New

You can now restrict the input help of input-ready variables in the Variables screen by using the Business Add-In (BAdI) RSR_VARIABLE_F4_RESTRICT_BADI according to different criteria.

For more information, see the F1 help for the BAdl (transaction SE18).

BEx Report Designer

Changed

In BEx Report Designer, there is no direct way of opening queries with variables. There is an indirect way of opening queries with variables in Report Designer however. For more information, see SAP Note 931838 Information published on SAP site.

BEx Report Designer

Enhanced

The following new features are now available in Report Designer:

  • Insert charts

    More information: Functions in the Insert Menu

  • Insert language-dependent texts

    More information: Functions in the Insert Menu

  • Check data providers

    More information: Functions in the Report Menu

  • Categorization of query fields in the field catalog

    When the data provider is opened, the query fields are grouped into characteristic fields and key figure fields.

  • Language-dependent text types

    The following language-dependent text types can now be used in Report Designer in addition to the language-independent texts:

    • Report-specific texts

    • Referencing of language-dependent texts from ABAP programs

    More information: Inserting User-Specific Texts

  • Context-sensitive charts

    Not only can you insert charts that depict the entire data provider into your reports, you can now insert context-sensitive charts too. Charts of this type depict the context of a characteristic value for the corresponding group level and are placed within a report section which is based on a data provider.

    More information:

    Inserting Charts into Reports

BEx Report Designer

New

In BEx Report Designer, you can format hierarchies and generate corresponding row patterns. You have the following options here:

  • Format hierarchies according to the type of the hierarchy node

  • Formatting hierarchies according to hierarchy levels

More information:

Formatting of Hierarchies

Analysis & Reporting: BEx Analyzer

Function

Type of Change

Description

BEx Analyzer

Enhanced

BEx Analyzer has the following enhancements:

  • Program errors or performance problems when opening and working in workbooks may be caused by too many objects in the background that are no longer used. If you set the Run in Repair Mode flag, these objects are deleted the next time the workbook is opened. To test whether problems with opening the workbook are related to macros, you can set the Do Not Run Exit Macros flag. The macros are then not run when the workbook is opened.

    More information: Global Settings

  • The Copy Sheet function is available in the Analysis toolbar under Tools. This allows you to copy a workbook sheet including all available design items.

    More information: Tools

  • You can add values, values from another worksheet for example, to the input help from the buffer. You can use the following context menu functions for this: Insert, Cut, Copy and Select All.

    More information: Selecting Characteristic Values

  • Using the Command Wizard, you can assign commands executed on query results to pushbuttons that you have created with the Button design item. With the Refresh command, you can request current data from the BW system and thus refresh the data in the workbook.

    More information: Command Wizard

  • In the properties for a characteristic in the drilldown, you can specify the access type for result values of a characteristic.

    More information: Characteristic Properties

  • In BEx Analyzer, you can analyze data efficiently by formulating conditions for a query so that figures that are irrelevant to your query are hidden. Conditions you create in BEx Analyzer are local conditions that are attached to the query view. You can use the Conditions Dialog to define and change local conditions in BEx Analyzer. You can also create a condition from the context of the current data cell in the results table. You can also use the context menu to specify whether a condition is active or inactive.

    More information: Defining Conditions in a Workbook

  • You can use the Drill Across Worksheets function to create a separate worksheet for each feature of a selected characteristic in your workbook.

    More information: Drill Across Worksheets

  • You can enter filter values in the navigation block filter area. You can also enter a list of single values, separated by commas, in the filter area. The selected value is used to filter the query so that only the relevant data is displayed. In the navigation pane, the third column (filter area) is updated with the current configuration values from the corresponding dimension or structure member (key figure).

    More information: Selecting Filter Values

Variables in BEx Analyzer

Enhanced

The following enhancements have been made to the variables in BEx Analyzer:

  • In BEx Analyzer, you can configure a variant as the standard variant. The standard variant is then used whenever the query is opened.

  • You can set the Display Duplicate Variables Only Once flag in the workbook settings. Select this setting if your workbook contains multiple queries that use the same variable, and you want to be prompted to enter the variable values again for each query.

  • You can now save a variant for a workbook too. This variant can contain the variable values for multiple data providers.

  • You can upload additional data for the selected variable and use it in the executed query. You can also upload a file for various variables all at once. You can also download data you uploaded for variables and save it locally.

More information:

Workbook Settings

Using Variables in BEx Analyzer

BEx Analyzer: Workbook Settings

Enhanced

The following enhancements have been made to the workbook settings in BEx Analyzer:

  • In order to improve performance, you can open a workbook and use the context menu to update either all workbook queries or only one workbook query. This function must be released in the workbook settings in order to leave the behavior of existing workbooks unchanged, for example, workbooks with queries that are dependent on each other.

  • You can change the description of a workbook in the workbook settings.

  • If you want to compress the data in a workbook when saving, you can set the Use Compression when Storing the Workbook flag. You use this function to reduce the space required by the workbook if it includes a large amount of information and metadata.

More information: Workbook Settings

BEx Analyzer: Analysis Grid

Enhanced

The following enhancements have been made to the analysis grid in BEx Analyzer:

  • In applications that use data providers that are assigned an input-ready query, the system allows you to enter data manually in new input-ready rows. To suppress new input-ready rows from being offered, you can set the Suppress New Rows flag in the analysis grid settings.

  • Number formats are deleted by default when you convert data in cells for the result set into formulas. Setzen Sie das Kennzeichen Zahlenformate bei Konvertierung in Formel nicht löschen in den Eigenschaften der Analysetabelle, um die jeweilige Einheit auch beim Arbeiten im Formelmodus beizubehalten.

More information: Analysis Grid

BEx Analyzer

New

In the dropdown box design item in BEx Analyzer, you can now display a list with the query views for the query that is currently displayed. In analysis mode, you can select a query view from the dropdown box; the data displayed in the analysis grid is then updated accordingly.

More information: Dropdown Box

General Services in BEx

Function

Type of Change

Description

Print Version Creation Exportable Web Items

Enhanced

When creating print versions of BEx Web Applications, you can now export and print the Web items Documents and List of Documents. Note that only comments of type Text Only can be exported.

Export layout for Web applications with multiple Web items

New

You can now display multiple Web items side by side in the print version of a Web application by using the EXPORT_LAYOUT Web template parameter.

For more information, see Creating Print Versions of BEx Applications and Web Template Parameters.

Information Broadcasting

Function

Type of Change

Description

Information Broadcasting in Federated Portal Networks

New

You have various options in KM for setting up the broadcasting of BW documents in federated portal networks. Users can thus select folders they have set up (in the input help under CM Repository View) in BEx Broadcaster as broadcasting targets when broadcasting the documents to any folders.

Caution

Broadcasting in federated portal networks is not supported for private documents (My Portfolio view) or for collaboration rooms.

More information: Setting Up Broadcasting in Federated Portal Networks

New Features for Distributing Workbooks, Queries and Query Views

New

In BEx Broadcaster, you now have the following additional options for distributing workbooks and queries:

  • You can distribute online links to workbooks

  • You can make a setting so that BEx Analyzer starts when the user clicks the online link, and the query displayed there.

  • If you have selected XML (MS Excel) as the output format for queries and query views, you can specify that the system creates a format supported by Microsoft Excel 2000. Otherwise the system creates a format for Microsoft Excel 2003.

More information:

Precalculating and Distributing Workbooks

General Settings for Precalculation and Creating Links

Integrating BEx and BW Objects into the Portal

Function

Type of Change

Description

Generation of BEx Web Application iViews

Changed

The procedure for creating BEx Web application iViews with the iView Wizard has changed. The terminology has also been adjusted in line with the two versions of the BEx Web application iViews. These versions are BEx Web Application iView (SAP BW 3.x format) and BEx Web Application iView (SAP NetWeaver 7.0 format).

For the BEx Web Application iView (SAP NetWeaver 7.0 format) version, you no longer need to enter the alias for the BW system manually. Any BW system in the portal system landscape that is set as a BW Master System is used automatically.

More information: BEx Web Application or Query as iView in the Portal

Integration with SAP BusinessObjects

Function

Type of Change

Description

Integration with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Design

New

You can now use BEx queries or query views as data sources for dashboards that you create with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Design. You open queries and query views from the BEx Open dialog in SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Design. The Data Manager - the area of Dashboard Design that manages data connections - contains a new connection: the SAP NetWeaver BW Connection. A dashboard can be created with multiple SAP NetWeaver BW connections from a single BW system. The dashboards are saved on the BW server using the BEx Save dialog. They can also be transported and translated like BW objects. Navigation in the data is reduced to filters and variables. Unlike the analysis table in BEx Web Applications, the table in the dashboard is static.

Effects on System Administration

You can transport the dashboards as TLOGO objects in the ABAP system landscape.

More information:

Integration with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Design

Crystal Reports Integration

New

Integrating Crystal Reports in SAP NetWeaver BW provides you with numerous options for creating formatted reports (Crystal Reports). Formatted reporting is especially useful in form-based reports with very limited analytical functions. These reports are based on a query. You should give some thought to the interaction options before designing the report.

More information:

Crystal Reports Integration