User`s guide

You can report off parent-child business components by linking parent business components to child
business components in the following ways:
• By opening the child business component using the same business object that is used to open the
parent business component.
• By opening the child business component associated with the parent's Multi Value field, identified
with a name that represents the child business component.
• By opening the child business component associated with the parent's Pick List Value field, identified
with a name that represents the child business component.
24.3.10 Multi-value columns
There are certain columns within the tables that are displayed through the Siebel driver that represent
multiple values. Crystal Reports will normally display the primary value for these fields. If no primary
ID field is defined, Crystal Reports will display one of the values, but this value is not predictable.
By default, Crystal Reports tries to improve performance by having any sort performed on the server.
In the case of multi-value columns where no primary value has been defined, this will fail. It is necessary
to make any report that needs to sort using multi-value columns perform the sorting on the client.
24.3.11 Data Types
24.3.11.1 Mapping Siebel data types to Crystal Reports types
Siebel supports a range of data types within its business components. These are converted to Crystal
Reports data types for presentation of the table equivalents. The following table shows the conversions.
Crystal Reports TypeSiebel Type
BooleanDTYPE_BOOL
NumberDTYPE_INTEGER
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