It’s been a while …
(The following is from an old post I made back in August of 2011.)
The basic steps are
- If necessary, make changes to BAQ.
- Copy the baq report from “W:\mfgsys803\Server\reports\CustomReports” to “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Epicor\Vista\8.03.403D\MC\shared\Reports”. These to paths are setup in BAQ Report Designer under Actions\Options.
- Launch BAQ Report Designer and load the BAQ Report
- If necessry make changes to BAQ Report settings (Options, Filters, Sorts, etc…)
- Run the Actions\Test Report Form
- Select options, filters and sorts to make sure report will contain useful data.
- Do a Print Preview, and ignore the resulting report
- Copy the recently created XML file (which will have updated data and report parameters) from "W:\mfgsysdata\Reports\userid" to “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Epicor\Vista\8.03.403D\MC\shared\Reports”.
- Close the Print Preview
- Close the Test Report Form window.
- Select Actions\Design Crystal Report.
- In CR Designer, select Database\Select Datasource Location
- In the upper pane, expand ReportDataSet
- Expand Properties
- Double click the File Path, select one character in the path\filename, and delete it.
- Press Enter (a window wil open asking for the ADO.NET (XML) info.
- Use Browse to select the copy of the XML file from step 8. Leave the Class field blank, and the Use Data… checkbox unchecked.
- Click Finish
- Click Close
- Select Report\Refresh Report Data( or just hit F5).
- Make whatever changes to the Report, save it, and exit CR.
- Select Actions\Deploy BAQ Report form the BAQ Report Designer window.
Some explanation …
- The "W:" in “W:\mfgsys803\Server\reports\CustomReports” was a mapping to our V8 server.
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C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Epicor\Vista\8.03.403D\MC\shared\Reports
was a folder (probably for Win XP) on the client computer