Hi, all and thanks for the forums!
I'm new to BOE and am trying to rebuild reports we have in Crystal Reports 9 (I'm told the Crystal Report import is not available to us). We use the 3 tier structure per our corporate architecture and though a 3 tier reporting structure leaves me a little baffled to begin with, as I'm accustomed to reports just connecting via ODBC straight to the underlying database, the universe is built (using desktop designer) and I can view the data in my tables. The database was recently migrated from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 and I have no problems with it using the existing Crystal Reports 9 reports or with a VB.Net web application. As well as viewing the table data in designer.
I have built a few reports now and have a couple questions.
1. One of my reports uses a "between" statement in the where clause using a datetime field that prompts for the start and end dates for the report. When I refresh the data, deski tells me there is no data to fetch--but I can copy the sql to SQL Server Management Studio and execute it (replacing the @variable for start and end with the appropriate date range) and return the expected number of records. Why would I be getting "No Data to Fetch"?
2. Another report simply has a where clause without any prompts and after refreshing the report, all I see is the report structure--it never shows the data in the report, but I can click view data and see it there. How do I get the report to display the data?
Would someone be so kind as to assist a BO newbie on why these 2 things are occuring?
Thanks,
ejowens