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Connect to NetSuite Data from Crystal Reports
Use CData Connect Cloud to connect to and report on live NetSuite data from Crystal Reports.
Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application by SAP designed to help you analyze your data with well-formatted, pixel-perfect, and multi-page reports. When paired with CData Connect Cloud, Crystal Reports gets access to live NetSuite data. This article demonstrates how to connect to NetSuite using Connect Cloud and report on NetSuite data in Crystal Reports.
CData Connect Cloud provides a pure SQL Server interface for NetSuite, allowing you to query data from NetSuite without replicating the data to a natively supported database. Using optimized data processing out of the box, CData Connect Cloud pushes all supported SQL operations (filters, JOINs, etc.) directly to NetSuite, leveraging server-side processing to return the requested NetSuite data quickly.
About NetSuite Data Integration
CData provides the easiest way to access and integrate live data from Oracle NetSuite. Customers use CData connectivity to:
- Access all editions of NetSuite, including Standard, CRM, and OneWorld.
- Connect with all versions of the SuiteTalk API (SOAP-based) and SuiteQL, which functions like SQL, enabling easier data querying and manipulation.
- Access predefined and custom reports through support for Saved Searches.
- Securely authenticate with Token-based and OAuth 2.0, ensuring compatibility and security for all use cases.
- Use SQL stored procedures to perform functional actions like uploading or downloading files, attaching or detaching records or relationships, retrieving roles, getting extra table or column info, getting job results, and more.
Customers use CData solutions to access live NetSuite data from their preferred analytics tools, Power BI and Excel. They also use CData's solutions to integrate their NetSuite data into comprehensive databases and data warehouse using CData Sync directly or leveraging CData's compatibility with other applications like Azure Data Factory. CData also helps Oracle NetSuite customers easily write apps that can pull data from and push data to NetSuite, allowing organizations to integrate data from other sources with NetSuite.
For more information about our Oracle NetSuite solutions, read our blog: Drivers in Focus Part 2: Replicating and Consolidating ... NetSuite Accounting Data.
Getting Started
Configure NetSuite Connectivity for Crystal Reports
Connectivity to NetSuite from Crystal Reports is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with NetSuite data from Crystal Reports, we start by creating and configuring a NetSuite connection.
- Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
- Select "NetSuite" from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to NetSuite.
The User and Password properties, under the Authentication section, must be set to valid NetSuite user credentials. In addition, the AccountId must be set to the ID of a company account that can be used by the specified User. The RoleId can be optionally specified to log in the user with limited permissions.
See the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation for more information on connecting to NetSuite.
![]( "Configuring a connection (Salesforce is shown)")
- Click Create & Test
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Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add NetSuite Connection page and update the User-based permissions.
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Add a Personal Access Token
If you are connecting from a service, application, platform, or framework that does not support OAuth authentication, you can create a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use for authentication. Best practices would dictate that you create a separate PAT for each service, to maintain granularity of access.
- Click on your username at the top right of the Connect Cloud app and click User Profile.
- On the User Profile page, scroll down to the Personal Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
- Give your PAT a name and click Create.
- The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.
Connect to NetSuite from Crystal Reports using Connect Cloud
To establish a connection from Crystal Reports to CData Connect Cloud, you will need to download the JDBC driver.
- Open the Client Tools page of CData Connect Cloud.
- In the Dev Tools section, click JDBC.
- Download and run the setup file.
- When the installation is complete, locate the JDBC Connect JAR file in the JDBC driver's installation directory, for example, C:\Program Files\CData\JDBC Driver for CData Connect\lib.
- Copy the JDBC Connect JAR file (cdata.jdbc.connect.jar).
After copying the JDBC CData Connect JAR file, you will need to paste it into the Crystal Reports installation location and configure the connection to Connect Cloud.
- Find the installation directory for Crystal Reports, for example, C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\java\lib
- Paste the JDBC Connect JAR file into the Crystal Reports installation directory.
- Go to the parent java folder. For example, C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\java This folder should contain a CRConfig file.
![]( "Locating the CRConfig file in the Crystal Reports installation directory.")
- Open CRConfig in a text editor.
- Add the path to the JDBC CData Connect JAR file in the
of the CRConfig file, for example, C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\java\lib ![]( "Editing the CRConfig file.")
- Log into Crystal Reports and start a blank report.
- In the Database Expert dialog, click Create New Connection.
- Select the JDBC data source and the tables you want to add. Click OK.
![]( "Selecting the JDBC data source.")
- In the Connection dialog, enter the Connection URL (e.g. jdbc:connect:AuthScheme=OAuth;) and Database Classname (e.g. cdata.jdbc.connect.ConnectDriver).
![]( "Configuring the connection.")
- Click Finish. The Database Expert dialog displays all available connections.
![]( "Browsing the available data from Connect Cloud.")
You can now create reports with the connected data.
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