Monday, July 20, 2009

Excel Not Opening Things


For some reason when Xcelsius installs it screws with the Excel options. Specifically double clicking on Excel files NOT opening. Interestingly enough this is a well documented problem. Here's a reference on BOB concerning Xcelsius. Here's another slightly outdated one from a Microsoft blog.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Crystal Reports from a Universe

My current project is to build a universe and a Crystal Report on top of it. Any suggestions? Is this a good idea? Or is it better to rebuild the table structure in Crystal itself? The clients hope is to have a "pixel perfect" report as well as a universe to do some ad hoc reporting on top of it. There should also be a lot of fun OpenDoc calls in this short little project.