Importing Crystal Report Definitions

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ClearSCADA uses Crystal Reports to generate, display, print and export reports.  Crystal Reports uses it own file format for saving report configuration.  ClearSCADA stores these report files as part of the database.

When you configure a report object from ViewX, ClearSCADA opens Crystal Reports automatically so that the reports can be edited.  When you save the report within Crystal Reports and then close Crystal, ClearSCADA loads that report file into the ClearSCADA database.  If you originally configure your reports outside of ClearSCADA and want to import that report definition into the ClearSCADA database, you can do this using the built-in ImportDefintion method on the Crystal Report object.


The Crystal report object in ClearSCADA has a number of methods that control what the report can do. The ImportDefiniton allows an external report configuration (rpt file) to be added to an internal report object in ClearSCADA.

There are a number of ways of doing this, but perhaps the easiest and quickest way to call this method is to temporarily add a button to a mimic that calls the method.

• Add a button object to a mimic

• Open the button object and add a pick action

• Select a Method

• For the Method action, choose the Crystal report object in ClearSCADA and select the ImportDefinition method

• For the File Name, enter the full path name on disk of the external report within single quotes

• Put the mimic in run mode and click the button

• Open the report object and verify that the report definition has been loaded into the report in ClearSCADA

• Remove the button from the mimic

A similar method is available to export report definitions from ClearSCADA to a file on disk.

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