User`s guide

21.9 Best practices for prompting
21.9.1 Unmanaged reports
Unmanaged reports are reports that you store outside of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
platform. These reports can use lists of values that you define within the report, or lists of values that
you have stored in the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Repository. (You create report lists of values
in Crystal Reports when you use the "Create New Parameter" dialog box. You create repository lists
of values in the Business Views Manager.)
Lists of values defined within a report have the following properties:
• They can be based on command objects or report fields.
• They are always stored within the .rpt file.
• They cannot be shared between reports.
If your unmanaged report also uses a repository-based list of values, the report will prompt you to log
on to the repository whenever it is opened. This process is required so that Crystal Reports can locate
the list-of-values object.
To maximize performance and scalability of unmanaged reports, you should reuse list-of-value objects
within a single report wherever possible. For information about how to do this, see Sharing common
lists of values within a report.
21.9.2 Managed reports
Managed reports are reports that you store within SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform.
Lists of values used in managed reports have the following properties:
• They are always stored in the repository.
• They can be shared between reports.
• They are based on Business Views.
To maximize performance and manageability of your managed reports, the following practices are
recommended:
• Define your list-of-values objects in Business View Manager, not Crystal Reports.
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