Crystal Reports XI Feature Comparison by Version and Edition New to Crystal Reports XI: Crystal Reports erver Crystal Reports erver is a new edition to Crystal Reports that allows you to create content and deliver it over the web. It s the perfect solution for small- and mid-market enterprise reporting requirements. With Crystal Reports erver, you can also apply flexible security and scheduling options while providing users with the technology to interact with report data. This comparison matrix provides a checklist of features supported in current and previous versions of Crystal Reports. Updated: January 2005 Version 6 Version 7 Version 8 Version 8.5 Version 9 Version 10 Version XI Crystal Reports Versions ukey Editions tandard rofessional eveloper dvanced eveloper V Crystal Reports erver Custom version bundled in Microsoft Visual tudio,.net and Borland C#Builder Custom version bundled in BE WebLogic Workshop and Borland JBuilder N J Report Types XI 10 9 8.5 8 7 6.NET Java Mailing labels,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Cross-tab reports,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Form-style reports,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J ubreports,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Conditional reports,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Top/bottom N reports,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J rill-own/summary reports,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J OL reports,, V,,,,,,,,, Chart Types XI 10 9 8.5 8 7 6.NET Java Bar,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,,,, N J tacked Bar,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Column,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,,,, N J tacked Column,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Line,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,,,, N J rea,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Numeric or ate/time X-xis,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,,,, N J ie,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,,,, N J catter,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Bubble,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Guage,,, V,,,,,, Gantt,,, V,,,,,, Funnel,,, V,,, High roductivity Report Creation XI 10 9 8.5 8 7 6.NET Java Report esign Wizard,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J 1 ata Explorer,,, V,,,,,,,,,, N J Report Explorer,,, V,,,,,, J Workbench,,, V Repository Explorer 2,,, V,,,,,, J Field Explorer,,, V,,,,,, J Microsoft Excel and ccess dd-ins,,, V,,,,,,,,,, Report Experts for automatic report creation,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Graphical table linking,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Field mapping between databases,,, V,,,,,,,,,,, N J Repository for component reuse,, V,,,, Custom Templates,,, V,,,,,, J Template Window (esign),,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, J Fully customizable runtime review Window,,, V,,,,,,,, J HTML review 3,, V rill down in runtime review Window,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, J uto saving,,, V,,,,,,,,,, J New atch Installation,,, V
Comprehensive Formatting and esign Control XI 10 9 8.5 8 7 6.NET Java Guidelines and vertical rulers,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, J utomatic styles, auto-arrange fields, ruler,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, J rag and drop, browse field data,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J rawing-style interface,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Line drawing, box drawing,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Circles, ovals and boxes with rounded corners,,, V,,,,,,,,,, N J Moving & resizing objects, selecting multiple objects,,, V,,,,,,,,,, J Conditional font formatting,,, V,,,,,,,,,, N J Conditional formatting of text by style and size,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Vertical text rotation,,, V,,,,,,,,,, N J Fractional font size,,, V,,,,,,,,,, N Format Editor,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Format ainter,,, V,,, J Horizontal age Numbers,,, V,,, symmetric reporting,,, V,,, BLOB bitmap support,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Custom and bound images,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Graphic image support (BM, TIFF, CX, TG),,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Graphic image support (JEG, ICT, NG),,, V,,,,,,,,,, N J ynamic Image Location,,, V upport for vector-based images,,, V,,,,,, Grid control options (on/off; visible/invisible, set line height),,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Charting on subtotals, groups, details and formulas,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Integrated geographic mapping,,, V,,,,,,,,,,, Integrated charting,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J rag and rop Charting and Cross Tabs,,, V Embed hyperlinks into reports,,, V,,,,,,,,,, N J Redo and multiple undo,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, J Multiple detail sections,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Underlay sections,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J OLE drag & drop between windows,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Copy entire report objects to Windows clipboard,,, V,,,,,,,, N J Cross-tab objects,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J ubreport objects,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Text objects,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J User-defined tool tips for tools and report objects,,, V,,,,,,,,,,, N J Running totals expert,,, V,,,,,,,,,,, N J Top N, bottom N sorting,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J N Value for Top N tyle Reports,,, V Custom (named) grouping,,, V,,,,,,,,,,, N J Hierarchical Grouping,,, V ort and subtotal in one step,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J arameter fields,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Report and page footers,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Use Basic-like syntax in formula language,,, V,,,,,,,,,, N J Formula Workshop,,, V,,,,,, J Custom Functions,,, V,,,,,, J Formula control of formatting,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J isplay string formatting,,, V,,,,,, J User Function Libraries (supports COM Object),,, V,,,,,,,, 5,, 5, 5, 5 N Java User Function Libraries (JRC only), V Year 2000 UFLs,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N Hierarchical group summary,,, V,,,,,,,,,, N
Interactive nalysis Tools XI 10 9 8.5 8 7 6.NET Java Report lerts,,, V,,,,,,,, Map lens,,, V,,,,,,,,,, nalyzer view for charts,,, V,,,,,,,,, Integrated nalyzer for charts,,, V,,,,,, J Conditional formatting on charts,,, V,,,,,, Include maps in reports,,, V,,,,,,,,,,, Customizable cross-tabs,,, V,,,,,,,,,,, N J Field highlighting,,, V,,,,,,,,,,, J Formula Editor,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Formula Expert,,, V,,,,,, J rill-down, full-featured search dialog,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J rill-down level functionality,,, V,,,,,, N J mart Navigation; group tree, drilldown, search,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, J Report Viewing and Interaction XI 10 9 8.5 8 7 6.NET Java arameter prompts via the Web,, V,,,,, J ynamic and Cascading rompts 3,,, V 4 HTML Report/age Viewer, V,, N J Winforms.NET Viewer, V,, N Webforms.NET Viewer, V,, N age Viewer, V,, J Report arts Viewer, V,, Grid Viewer, V, Mobile Viewer, V,, Java lug-in Viewer, V,, ctivex Viewer, V,, Netscape Viewer plug in,, V,,,,,, Local printing and export from viewer,, V,,,,,, J age-on-demand,, V,,,,,, N J Customizable Report Viewer ettings, V,, N J Customize reports in runtime review Window, V,, N dvanced search on saved data; export search results to various formats,, V,,,, N J Report Export Configuration,,, V Export to XML,,, V,,,,,,,, Export to F,,, V,,,,,,,, N J Export to HTML (HTML 4.0),,, V,,,,,,,,,, N Export to Microsoft Excel,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N(XL) Export to character-separated values, paginated text, record style (columns of values), report definition, tab-separated text and values,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, Export to RTF,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Export to disk,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N Export to application,,, V,,,,,,,,,,, N Export to OBC databases,,, V,,,,,,,,,, N Microsoft Mail,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N Microsoft Exchange,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N Lotus cc:mail,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, Lotus Notes,,, V,,,,,,,,,, Export and/or e-mail reports with saved data,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, Report options saved with report,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J ave subreport as standalone report,,, V,,,,,,,,,, Report arts for wireless and portal integration,,, V,,,,, upport for Microsoft mart Tags in Office X,,, V,,,,,,
Report distribution and deployment XI 10 9 8.5 8 7 6.NET Java Java Reporting Component, V, J.NET Reporting Component, V,, N COM Report esigner Component (RC), V,, Crystal Report Engine I, V,, ingle ign-on,,, V Report publisher V Customizable web portal interface V Report scheduler V ecurity for groups, users, folders and reports V Web-based report management console V Business views (semantic layer) V Enhanced support for Business Objects Universes,, V Report Integration XI 10 9 8.5 8 7 6.NET Java Report Viewing Ks (Java,.NET and COM), V,, N Report creation and modification Ks (Java,.NET and COM), V Custom J Tag Library (for viewing), V, J Java erver Faces Viewer, V erver-ide rinting, V Visual Control Library (VCL), V,, Rapid pplication evelopment XI 10 9 8.5 8 7 6.NET Java Multi-pass reporting with powerful grouping and sorting,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J orting on groups, unlimited sorting,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Heterogeneous data sources,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J Top N, specified groups,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J upport Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 features, V,, upport for Unbound fields with auto binding, V,, ctive ata river upport (O, RO, CO) for runtime data sources, V,, N (O.NET) Event/call-back support, V,, N J rill down in runtime review Window, V,, N Other QL Features and Tools XI 10 9 8.5 8 7 6.NET Java upport for electistinct for selecting records,,, V,,,,,,,, N J upport for TopN for selecting records,,, V,,,,,,,, N J QL database access,,, V,,,,,,,, N J QL pass-through,,, V,,,,,,,, N J d hoc QL query tool,, V,,, J Unlimited QL Commands,,, V,,,,,, J ort data on QL database servers,,, V,,,,,,,, N J ecurity pass-through,,, V,,,,,,,, atabase driver conversion,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N Group-by, aggregation and QL expressions on QL database servers,,, V,,,,,,,, N tored rocedure upport (ccess via OBC, Oracle, ybase, QL erver, Watcom/ QL nywhere),,, V,,,,,,,, 6,, 6 N ata Connectivity Crystal Reports can connect to almost any data source including relational, OL, and XML data. Whether you require access to databases, files, logs, application systems (Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Resource lanning, etc.) or program elements, you can use Crystal Reports to access it. Crystal Reports also supports Unicode so you can report off of data stored in virtually any language. lus, for developers, access to user-defined or application in-memory data is available through JavaBeans, COM data providers and O.NET. For a listing of supported data sources for a specific version, please visit our support site to download a platforms.txt file. Examples of supported data sources through native drivers, OLE B, OBC, and JBC include: Oracle, IBM B2, ybase, Microsoft QL erver, Microsoft QL erver nalysis ervices, Informix, ct!, ervasive, ervasive QL, Microsoft ccess, Teradata, Holos, BW, BE, CO, Microsoft Internet Information erver, Microsoft ystem Management erver, Microsoft Windows NT Event Logs, Microsoft Outlook, aradox, XML/X, Lotus omino, Microsoft Foxro, Web erver ctivity Logs (NC format), CII, base, and Informix.
Online ocumentation XI 10 9 8.5 8 7 6.NET Java Installation guide,,, V,,,,,,,,,,, J User s guide,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, J Technical reference guide, V,, J What s new in Crystal Reports,, V,,,, J General online help,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, J eveloper online help, V,, J eveloper runtime help, V,, J.NET K guide,, N Java reporting component I reference, J Java viewer I reference, Language Editions 7 XI 10 9 8.5 8 7 6.NET Java utch,, V, English,,, V,,,,,,,,,,,, N J French,, V,,,,,, N J German,, V,,,,,, N J Italian,, V,,,,, N Japanese,, V,,,,,, N J implified Chinese,, V,,,, N Traditional Chinese,, V panish,, V,,,,, N J Korean,, V,,,, Notes: 1. Crystal Reports for Java includes a custom standalone Windows designer. 2. Managed repository is now provided through Crystal Reports erver. n introductory offer is included in Crystal Reports rofessional and eveloper editions. 3. The functionality of this feature is enhanced when used in conjunction with Crystal Reports erver. special introductory offer of Crystal Reports erver is included in Crystal Reports rofessional and eveloper editions. 4. ynamic and Cascading rompts can be viewed, but cannot be designed in the tandard Edition 5. Read only for tandard Edition. 6. tored rocedure upport in tandard Edition is via OBC for ccess, Excel and QL only. 7. ome components may be provided in English only. www.businessobjects.com mericas sia-acific Europe, Middle East, frica Japan Tel: +1 800 877 2340 Tel: +65 6887 4228 Tel: +33 1 41 25 21 21 Tel: +81 3 5447 3900 Business Objects owns the following U.. patents, which may cover products that are offered and licensed by Business Objects: 5,555,403; 6,247,008 B1; 6,578,027 B2; 6,490,593; and 6,289,352. Business Objects and the Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal nalysis, WebIntelligence, RapidMarts, and BusinessQuery are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects or its affiliated companies in the United tates and other countries. ll other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright 2005 Business Objects. ll rights reserved. T#4761