If you have purchased and installed Crystal Reports Professional
Edition, you can create your own report formats.
About this task
Rational® ClearQuest®
software includes predefined reports and report formats. To edit an
existing report format or to create your own, you must purchase and
install Crystal Reports Professional Edition. For more information,
go to
http://www.businessobjects.com/products/reporting/crystalreports/.
To
create a report format:
Procedure
- Click .
- In the Choose Record Type window, select
a record type and click OK.
- In the Edit Report Format window, enter
a name for the report format in the Report Format Name field.
- From the Select Fields Available
for Report list, select fields to make available in a
report based on this format and add the fields to the Fields
in Report list. Do this by double-clicking a field in
the Select Fields Available for Report list.
- Click Author Report. The Crystal Reports Professional Edition application starts.
- In the Field Explorer window, expand Database
Field and then expand the ClearQuest entry
to view available fields.
- Drag the fields to include in your report
format from the Field Explorer window to an area on the Crystal Reports
Design page. You can move and resize fields in any of the design areas.
- If the check box is selected,
clear it.
- When you are finished, click Close.
- Click . (Do not click .) Crystal
Reports prompts you to save the temporary .rpt file.
- Click Yes. The Crystal
Reports application exits, and the Rational ClearQuest Edit
Report Format window is active.
- Click OK. You are prompted
to save your changes to the database.
- Click OK.
Results
The report format is selected in your Personal
Queries folder. You can keep the default name, but you
might prefer to rename it to reflect the type of reports that you
can generate with it.
Only Rational ClearQuest administrators
or someone with the Super User privilege or the Public Folder Administrator
privilege can place report formats in the Public Queries folder.