webElements on Crystal reports not working post BO 4.3 upgrade

[dramakrishnareddy]

Hi All,

WebElements used crystal reports are not working, We have upgrade our BO environemnt from BO 4.2 SP8 to BO 4.3 SP2 and in our environment we have few crystal reports has used webElements for control(drop downs, buttons).

Could you please help me out how to upgrade and ensure crystal reports work as expected.

Any help or document how to install and use web Elements will be a great help.

Thanks & Regards,

Dwarakanath

[JWiseman · Accepted solution]

hello Dwarakanath, the feature that you need to enable on SAP BI is "Passthrough HTML". This is what enables HTML in single line formulas & fields to be interpreted as such. WebElements is a Custom Function library that utilizes the Passthrough HTML feature.

The instructions that I use for enabling this are as follows, and should be done by your SAP BI Administrator.

1. Create a new text file named CrystalReports.properties in the following directory.

<install directory>\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\warfiles\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\config\custom

2. The content of this file should be as follows

# This parameter is used to activate pass-through HTML for Crystal Reports

crystal_encode_html_for_single_line_field_objects=no

3. Run wdeploy.

If your reports work OK after enabling Passthrough HTML, then there is no need to make any changes to the WebElements function library. If you're interested though, you can also find a test version of webElements which works in SAP BI 4.3 here. Please note that this is currently a beta version, so please use on test versions of your reports.

I hope this helps,

-jamie

[JWiseman · Accepted solution]

Hi Dwarakanath, I don't know if you're still working with the webElements, but I thought I'd let you know I've been working on an edition specifically for SAP BI / BOBJ & CR Server 4.3. It's an early release / beta / test edition, but please feel to try it out on your test servers. There's lots of small fixes and some new features and some new controls as well; some of which I still need to document.

Please check out the download file, accessible from the webElements github readme, and let me know what you think. There is a main webelements433 report as well as two "sample" reports (all seen in the pics on the readme) to try out on your test server.