How to use webElements controls to write back to database

[Former Member]

I found in webElments User Guide that "webElements controls can be used to interact with a database directly."

But I read through the doc, only see listed different controls' function, but don't find any about how to interact with a database.

How to use webElements controls in CR to write back to database? Any one can help?

Thanks in advance!

Jennie

[JWiseman]

hello all, ...a command object in a crystal would be used to do the actual inserts or update statements to write to a database.

webelements create the end user GUI and also write up the opendocument url. in the case of selecting details level values, the opendoc url would be satisfying multiple value prompts in conjunction with the combo control in webelements. using normal crystal prompt dialogues to do this would be pretty difficult.

there are some sample reports that you can download from https://boc.sdn.sap.com/node/323

the Reorder Form report in that download is an example of a report that is developed to pass values to a subreport based off of a command object, and in turn the command object does the database writeback.

Edited by: Jamie Wiseman on Sep 15, 2008 12:59 PM

[vitaly_izmaylov]

Have you seen the following presentation of David Taylor?

[http://www.businessobjects.com/jump/xi/roadshowvid06/webelements/webelementsdemo.html]

It provides some relevant details.