Operation Manual

Parameter Fields and Prompts

Best practices for prompting

458 Crystal Reports User’s Guide

Converting unmanaged reports to managed reports

You can convert an unmanaged report to a managed report in the following

ways:

• Publish one or more reports with the Publishing Wizard.

• Save the report to BusinessObjects Enterprise using the Crystal Reports

Save As command.

• Create a new report object from within the InfoView portal.

• Create a new report object from within the Central Management Console

portal.

In all of these cases, these actions are carried out on the prompt object in

your unmanaged report:

• List-of-values objects that are defined in the report are converted to

repository lists of values. A Business View, Business Element, Data

Foundation, and Data Connection object is created.

• If the same list-of-values object already exists in the repository, no

duplicate object is created. Instead, your report references the existing

list-of-values object.

• List-of-values objects that are repository-based are unchanged.

• Prompt groups that are defined in the report are converted to repository

prompt groups.

• Prompt groups that are repository-based are unchanged.

• All of the new repository-based Business View objects, list-of-values

objects, and prompt-group objects are created in the repository folder

called Dynamic Cascading Prompts.

Deploying managed reports with dynamic prompts

Repository-based lists of values and prompt groups are repository objects like

any other. When managed reports are migrated from one repository to

another using the Import Wizard, the list-of-values and prompt-group objects

are imported as well. This functionality makes it easy to migrate reports from

system to system. BusinessObjects Enterprise tracks the objects that a report

depends on, and imports these objects to the destination system if needed.

Business Views Manager has been enhanced to support the import and

export of lists of values and prompt groups. For more information, see the

Business Views Administrator’s Guide.