Author : Andrew Baines

Capsule CRM reporting using Crystal Reports

Customer: Care provider Our customer switched to Capsule CRM to handle their recruitment process. Capsule provides a really efficient way to create and monitor the recruitment workflow from first contact through interviews to training. Problem is, the database is ‘up there’ in the cloud. Typically of many cloud platforms, the focus is on data in. […]

Where’s my data?

When designing reports, one of the trickiest aspects is often just finding the data. There may be no database schema or the original designer is unavailable, often unhelpful. I’ve used the free version of Redgate’s SQL Search for some time. It’s great for finding column or table names. Especially useful if you want to find […]

Sparkline charts in Crystal Reports!

Sadly, the sparklines below no longer work as Google have turned off the charts. Image-charts looked like a good alternative, but they only server the images over https which Crystal still doesn’t support. It’s probably possible to do something clever with a web service, I’ll look if I get the time. I had an interesting […]

SAP BI 4.2/Edge 4.2 released

Short and sweet! If you have current maintenance for SAP BI4.2 or Edge 4.2, you will now be able to download the new release. You’ll need a new licence key, request through the normal SAP site. Our test server should be available within the next few days and we’ll be seeing how smoothly in-place upgrades […]

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