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Crystal XI Database Recognition (Read 880 times)

cmaloney Browser I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 1	Crystal XI Database Recognition 02/15/06 at 12:55:44 I have just installed Crystal XI to generate reports out of DBA Version 2004.1 and am getting error message "Failed to load database information" then "Unknown database connector error" when I try to "create new connection". Any suggestions on how to make Crystal read my database?
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jgh1204 Member When all else fails, don't do all else again. Posts: 51 Gender:	Re: Crystal XI Database Recognition Reply #1 - 02/15/06 at 14:27:25 Does XI still support BTRIEVE?
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JNAPIER Active Member Evil-Evo Bad Dog! Posts: 533 Gender:	Re: Crystal XI Database Recognition Reply #2 - 02/16/06 at 07:27:32 Are you attempting an ODBC connection or DDF database? If ODBC you need to create an odbc server engine on the server and a local client connection on your workstations. I use 8.0 and can do either type of connection. XI? John
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Re: Crystal XI Database Recognition
Reply #3 - 02/16/06 at 11:00:32

Yes it does but only on the transactional side. Simple point directly to the location of your DDF files and choose field.DDF

WARNING!!!! This is the DDF file in with the .B files not the one in DBAMFG. Also since it's transactional, you will need to know the key relationships. It will show you the keys but not the relations to the other tables e.g. the difference between relational and transactional table access!

This works great if your are going to distribute the report. You don't have to make sure the ODBC name is the same on every machine. As a matter of fact, you don't even have to have an ODBC connection.

Hope it helps,

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Re: Crystal XI Database Recognition
Reply #4 - 06/22/06 at 15:52:05

yes, ALL versions of Crystal can access your btrieve database, that is what Pervasive is around for.

if you don't use ODBC, and you are using the Btrieve access, then all users that are using your report must have the same Drive Mappings as you, from when you create your report.

so the question remains, what TYPE of connection are you attempting? Crystal can access hundreds of databases. what connection metho are you attempting to use?

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