Summary
Steps to produce a report that pulls information from more than one company in Crystal Reports for Sage
Cause
In Sage Fixed Assets, it is not possible to run a Standard Report on multiple companies. The Standard Reports can only pull data from the company that is open.
To create a consolidated reports of all company in any given databases, you must have a Reporting license purchased from Sage and installed the SAP Crystal Reports for Sage.
- See How to install Crystal Reports - Single User 2018.1 thru 2023.1 which will work for any workstation installations
- See How to create a custom Crystal report using the Reporting module to have a Crystal client install available for the Sage Fixed Assets Network and Premier server installations.
Resolution
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To include all the companies in any one Sage Fixed Assets database on a Crystal Report and to exclude negative (deleted) companies:
In Sage Fixed Assets:
- Go to: Reports, Reporting, select Create New Report, enter the Report Title, enter a File Name for the report, click Create Report.
Note: SAP Crystal Reports for Sage will open to the Preview tab that will only include the System Number and Extension of all assets in the open company. - In the Crystal Reports: Go to, Reports, Select Expert, Record which will open the Select Expert dialog
- On the SFA_Company_Information.Company Name tab: Select is equal to or greater than from the drop-down list, Enter 0 (Zero), click OK and click Refresh Data when prompted.
Note: This will produce a report which will show all assets in all the companies in the database with no other formatting.
Alternatively: To avoid issues with special character in the Company Names field in the database, in the Select Expert: Delete the SFA_Company_Information.Company Name tab: click New, in the Choose Field window under WINFASRW: select Company Information, highlight Company Number, click OK, on the SFA_Company_Information.Company Number: select is greater than from the drop-down list, Enter 0 (Zero), click OK and click Refresh Data when prompted.
To get only a list of only the Company Names:
- On the Design Tab: Right Click Details line, select Hide or Suppress.
- Go to: Insert, Group, select SFA_Company_Information.Company Name, and click OK.
- On the Preview tab: There will be a list of all the companies in the database.
At this point you will have a starting point to create a consolidated report of all the companies in any one database.
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