The User and Password properties, under the Authentication section, must be set to valid SharePoint userĬredentials when using SharePoint On-Premise. This allows you to query any lists and other SharePoint entities defined for the site or sub-site. Set the URL property to the base SharePoint site or to a sub-site.
You can find a guide to working with SharePoint data in Server Explorer in the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation.
In the resulting wizard, select the option to create a blank report.Ĭreating an ADO.NET data source for SharePoint from Server Explorer makes it easy to create a DataSet that can be used in Crystal Reports wizards and the Crystal Reports Designer. You can create one by clicking File -> New Project and then selecting the Crystal Reports WPF Application template. This article will add a report to a WPF application. To follow this article, you will also need a Visual Studio Crystal Reports project. Note: You will need to install Crystal Reports, developer version for Visual Studio to follow this tutorial.
This article shows how to complete the three steps necessary to add SharePoint data to a report that refreshes when opened. You can use the standard ADO.NET components to create reports just like you would work with SQL Server, but with real-time connectivity to SharePoint. The CData ADO.NET Provider for SharePoint is fully integrated into the Crystal Reports for Visual Studio development environment.