webElements addon

[former_member602339]

Hi everyone,

We are using webElements functions in our Crystal reports and recently we upgraded our BOBJ version. Can anyone point me to where I can find/download webElements add-on for Crystal Reports 2016 SP09.

Thanks,

Sri

[former_member602339]

Hi Jamie,

Thank you for your reply. We would like to install the beta version however, the link you provided doesn't have any add-on exe file in it. Please correct me if I missed anything.

[JWiseman]

hi Sri, the install is done via the webElements428 report that is in the GitHub repo via the link above. Please see the instructions on the report about adding the Custom Functions to your repository. The webElements functions are just CR Custom Functions that are written with a blend of Crystal formula syntax, HTML, & JavaScript and are added to your BI repository.

As mentioned before, please install on a development / testing environment so that you do not overwrite the function set in your production repository.

If you haven't seen the main report in webElements before have a look at it (the 428 one) and you can get sample formulae for all of the functions. To make a new report you just need to add the repository version of webElements to your new report and then copy over the sample formulae that you're interested in from the main report.

In the GitHub repo there is also an older version of the User Guide which also has instructions and info that you might find helpful.

regards, -jamie

[JWiseman]

hi Sri, I'm just checking in to see if you're having any issues with that 428 beta version of webelements.

As mentioned before the only function that I saw real issues with is the WEViewer control. This control is probably no longer relevant anyways, as there is the ability to control the report viewer with OpenDocument using the UI Customization parameters. Plus there are certain things removed from the Crystal Reports JS SDK, so a couple of things in the WEViewer control can no longer be used anyways. Most of the other webelements controls should be OK. I did a bunch of formatting adjustments with them and that work is already in the beta.

If you didn't see those parameters for OpenDocument before have a look at "sAllUIElements" as you can use this to hide the left side panel as well as the toolbar like you see in the parent report in the picture below. In order to get this view I created a new URL in InfoView like this

http://localhost:8080/BOE/OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp?sType=rpt&sDocName=webElementsAdHoc&...

Instead of opening up the parent report directly the end users access the URL. The report that you see in the embedded frame is inside the WEIFrame control which I believe you're already using. This is probably the best way to use webelements by having a main report that contains only the controls like the ones you see on the left side here and then have an iframe for your regular report.

As mentioned, please let me know if you see any issues. I will be updating the functions in the near future as well.

regards,

Jamie