December 2003
Welcome to Crystal Reports 10, the world standard in high-performance reporting. With Crystal Reports, you can rapidly transform almost any data into powerful, interactive content for tight integration into .NET, Java, and COM applications and extend your reporting solutions to other environments including Crystal Enterprise, portals, wireless devices, and Microsoft Office documents.
The notes contained in this document cover important information pertaining to this release of Crystal Reports. Please read the entire document before performing the Crystal Reports 10 installation, and be sure to visit the Crystal Reports web site for the latest product news.
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On-demand installation of database drivers does not work for reports based on Business Views.
The Java Reporting Component does not support the JavaBean driver.
The Delphi VCL for Crystal Reports is only available from the Crystal Decisions Developer Zone web site.
Diagnostic logging incorrectly reports version 5 and 6 reports as version 10.2.
In Crystal Reports 8 and 9, you could embed script tags and other HTML tags into your reports to allow the creation of DHTML items in the output of the DHTML Viewer. To improve security, the default behavior in Crystal Reports 10 is to convert HTML to safe text. At your own risk, you can enable a registry key for HTML embedding behavior. Please read the article at http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=596 to understand the implications of not encoding all HTML output from Crystal Reports.
New database drivers are currently under development for use with version 10 Crystal products on Windows and UNIX. Check this link for availability: http://www.crystaldecisions.com/ipl/default.asp?destination=updatedfeatures&language=EN&product=crystalenterprise&version=10
Version 10 Crystal products no longer include most of the ODBC database drivers (manufactured by DataDirect Technologies) that were installed with earlier Crystal products. Updated DataDirect ODBC drivers for use with version 10 Crystal products on Windows and UNIX will be made available. Check this link for availability: http://www.crystaldecisions.com/ipl/default.asp?destination=updatedfeatures&language=EN&product=crystalenterprise&version=10
Note: You cannot change the ODBC System DSN if the database name or owner name contain special characters. You may also encounter problems with older drivers, and with changing the names of your stored procedures.
In Crystal Reports 8 and 9, you could embed script tags and other HTML tags into your reports to allow the creation of DHTML items in the output of the DHTML Viewer. To improve security, the default behavior in Crystal Reports 10 is to convert HTML to safe text. At your own risk, you can enable a registry key for HTML embedding behavior. Please read the article at http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=596 to understand the implications of not encoding all HTML output from Crystal Reports.
Importing Microsoft data reports (DSR) is not supported in Crystal Reports 10 .NET SDK.
Java Viewer SDK
Report Application Server (RAS) SDK
To download the latest versions of the documentation included with your Crystal products, visit http://support.crystaldecisions.com/documentation/.
The currency symbol in a report floats even if the fixed position option is selected.
When viewing a report in the viewer, column headings of a cross-tab may overlap or truncate.
The Oracle JDBC driver does not support reports with BFILE data.
The Oracle JDBC driver does not support interval data types.
The Oracle JDBC driver does not support reports with UROWID data.
The Informix ODBC driver returns the CLOB field as an object rather than a CLOB.
The chart legend can appear differently in the Crystal Reports Designer than in the viewer.
The viewer does not display textures or pictures used as the background for charts.
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