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dwm
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I'm an old hand at Crystal Reports (CR) and CR was wonderful at handling adhoc ODBC connectivity. This does not seem to be the case with Webfocus. In fact in this aspect and based on my experience with Webfocus I'd give it an "F" for a grade. CR was much easier to use for the average or power user in this aspect and reports were ready in minutes.

Well it's days and I'm not getting anywhere with ODBC and Webfocus. What can I do? The solution is definitely not intuitive otherwise this "ubergeek" would have figured it out by now. lol.

Any help or insight would be appreciated. I'm not ready to give up just yet, but thought hey why not ask for some help. I'm looking for basic help on setting up a connection via ODBC and my scans of the forums are not pulling up what I need.

DM


- DWM

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Posts: 3 | Location: Texas | Registered: December 11, 2007Report This Post
GinnyJakes
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On Windows, the ODBC connection is not adhoc. You aren't say what the data source is.

If your source is a spreadsheet, you will have to define a named range first.

But first go to ODBC setup on your Windows box and define a System DSN. Then go to your reporting server console and define a connection for that source.

Then define a master.


Ginny
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Fernando
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First Step - Setup an ODBC connection to your file. I have an access file so I use that driver. I also have found that a System DSN works well.

Second step - Setup a adapter in WF to your ODBC source. The names must match exactly. Test your connection.

Third step - Generate the metadata.

Fourth step - Create your report.

Fernando


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dwm
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Ok that explains it. No power to the people here. The tool I need is in the admin web console. I'm working to gain access to that function in our development environment.

Thanks!!


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Jason K.
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you can use a dsn-less connection with CR, you can not with webfocus.

That said, your CR environment quickly reads your DSN's and any connstrings you have set up, displays them in your menu and you can simply pick from them. (at least that's the way it was back when I was using CR 9) This is a pretty sweet setup, I must say, but you can do the same "type" of thing by setting up all these DSN's on your Webfocus reporting server.

Given time, you will embrace some of webfocus's advantages... which include the dialogue manager (give up the report painter as soon as you can if you want to get the most from your reports).


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