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Crystal reports preferences, Selecting your crystal report viewer – HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition Software User Manual

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Setting Preferences

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4.

In the “View my OLAP Intelligence reports using the” area, select the viewer that you

want to use when you view your OLAP Intelligence reports:
• If you want to use ActiveX features and functionality to view your reports, then

choose ActiveX Viewer.
The necessary ActiveX controls are automatically installed on your computer when

you click to view an OLAP Intelligence report for the first time. Typically, the ActiveX

viewer is faster than the DHTML viewer.

• If you want to use the web browser to view your reports, then choose DHTML

Viewer.
The DHTML viewer provides more toolbar options than the ActiveX viewer.

5.

Click

OK

.

Crystal Reports preferences

Before you work with Crystal reports in InfoView, it is recommended that you set the

Crystal Reports preferences to suit your reporting needs. See the following sections for

more information:

Selecting your Crystal report viewer

” on page 16

Description of the Crystal report viewers

” on page 17

Selecting your Crystal report viewer

To select a Crystal report viewer

1.

Log on to InfoView.

2.

On the Header panel toolbar, click

Preferences

.

The Preferences appears.

3.

Click the

Crystal Report

tab.

4.

In the “View my reports using the” area, select the viewer that you want to use when

you view your Crystal reports:

ActiveX viewer

The ActiveX viewer is enabled if you have installed Microsoft Internet Explorer

versions that support ActiveX controls. For more information, see ”

ActiveX viewer

on page 18.

DHTML viewer

The DHMTL viewer is a zero-client viewer for browsers that support Dynamic HTML.

For more information, see ”

DHTML viewer

” on page 19.

Advanced DHTML viewer

In addition to providing all of the features of the DHTML viewer, the Advanced

DHTML viewer includes an Advanced Search Wizard that allows searches that use

Boolean operators. For more information, see ”

Advanced DHTML viewer

” on

page 19.

Java viewer

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