Crystal reports login prompt from Infoview

[kevin_geiger]

We recently installed a BOE XI 3.1 system. When I navigate to a crystal report in INFOVIEW and click it I am prompted for a login. By defautl we want to use WinAD for authentication but for this login the default is Enterprise. I change the authentication to WinAD, provide my user name and password and click Log On and the crystal report is displayed. Is there a *.xml or config file that controls this?

[BasicTek · Accepted solution]

If you configure the login info via CMC you can select AD if the report was designed via AD (aka trusted connection)

If you want to have the users credentials submitted to the DB at viewtime then you must choose SSO in the CMC and configure SSO to the DB. [steps are located here in this doc|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/3097fb98-c63e-2b10-e7b8-fb7253566373] only kerberos will allow you to delegate user credentials to the DB.

Regards,

Tim

[kevin_geiger]

It may be a database connection logon, but I don't this so. I'm in Infoview, I navigate to the Comparative Income Statement in the Report Samples,,Demonstration folder. I click the report to bring up the default report and get prompted. If I provide my WinAD userID and password and change the Authentication to Windows AD the report is displayed, after the report is displayed if I click the refresh button I get a subsequent error that I think is DB related. I was hoping to get past the first error before I work on the DB error.

The default authentication on this logon screen is enterprise. It seems like I am missing a configuration somewhere. we updated the web.xml file for Infoview and that is working fine. Is there a config file specific to crystal?

[Former Member]

Regardless of what authentication type you have (Enterprise v/s AD), if you are logged in to InfoView and have a valid BOE session, it should not really prompt you for a re-login when you open a Crystal Report within InfoView. The DB login prompt is a different issue though.

As far as I know, the web.xml is the only place to specify the auth type, assuming you have Windows AD authentication set up through the CMC. I am guessing you are able to login to InfoView initially using your AD credentials without an issue.

[Former Member]

I am not sure if you mean that you are prompted for InfoView login when you click on the report or just the database login so that the report can be refreshed.