Official Product Tutorials SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4. August 21, 2010 8,328 Views. Make Modules_Install on this page. SAP Business. Objects Enterprise BI 4. Modify the Crystal Reports Viewer Export Format List. In this current series of SAP Business. Objects Enterprise BI 4. Whats New with the SDKs, Im describing new SDK functionality that I find particularly interesting in the recently released SAP Business. Objects Enterprise BI 4. RIES/screen-shots/featuresEnt_16.jpg' alt='Crystal Reports Enterprise 10' title='Crystal Reports Enterprise 10' />In this brief blog entry, Ill describe how you can modify the export format list as presented by the Crystal Report Viewer. Crystal Report Viewer Export List. Create a bit of code to bring up a Crystal Report in the Crystal Report Web Viewer, then click on the export button. In the export dialog box that appears, select the export format drop down, and what you see is the following Thats one of the features of the viewer it supports a lot of export formats. But theres times where you cant or dont want to give your clients so many choices. Crystal Reports 5 Crystal Reports for enterprise provides an interface that enables you to quickly and easily create, format, and publish effective reports. RIES/screen-shots/features_2.jpg' alt='Crystal Reports Enterprise 10' title='Crystal Reports Enterprise 10' />For example, security and document assurance policies at an organization may explicitly prevent people from accessing the Crystal Reports RPT format, to eliminate any possibility of document modification. Or for more casual users, you may want to restrict them to only PDF and Excel exports. In previous versions of the viewer, there wasnt a fully supported way of trimming specific export formats from the drop down. You could eliminate the export functionality altogether which is typically not what clients want but within strict supported deployments, you had to accept all the export formats, or none. Modification of the export format list, when you really needed to do it, was something that had to be done outside of supported use. Theres been a few ways in XI Release 2 and previous, it was quite popular to edit the export. Java. Script file included in the viewer to achieve this end. However, one had to migrate these changes every time you applied a patch, and there was no guarantee that the same changes would work, since the export. Then with XI 3. 0, it no longer was possible to modify the export format list via the export. The workaround then implemented by a few involved HTTP filters to capture and modify the outgoing HTML stream at the web app server to eliminate the unwanted exports. This was, as you can imagine, much harder to maintain. Removing an Export Format via the Viewer SDKThe new SAP Business. Objects Enterprise BI 4. Viewer SDK introduces a new method, the Crystal. Report. Viewer. remove. Export. Format method. Given an instance of the Crystal. Report. Viewer, invoking the following crystal. Report. Viewer. remove. Export. Formatcom. Report. Export. Format. Reports crystal. Report. Viewer. remove. Export. Formatcom. Report. Export. Format. PDF crystal. Report. Viewer. remove. Export. Formatcom. Report. Export. Format. Separated. Values crystal. Report. Viewer. remove. Export. Formatcom. Report. Export. Format. RTF crystal. Report. Viewer. remove. Export. Formatcom. crystaldecisions. Report. Export. Format. MSWord crystal. Report. Viewer. remove. Export. Formatcom. Report. Export. Format. MSExcel crystal. Report. Viewer. remove. Export. Formatcom. Report. Export. Format. To. MSExcel crystal. Report. Viewer. remove. Service Manual Sony Trinitron. Export. Formatcom. Report. Export. Format. To. MSExcel. 20. 07 crystal. Report. Viewer. remove. Export. Formatcom. Report. Export. Format. RTF crystal. Report. Viewer. remove. Export. Formatcom. crystaldecisions. Report. Export. Format. XML results in the following drop down And there you have it only the PDF export format remains. Its that simple Conclusion. Im very happy that this enhancement made it into the product the ability to modify the export list was one of the things frequently asked for by both external and internal coders. Sample code for the above example is downloadable JAVAENTERPRISEBE1. CRWEBVIEWREMOVEEXPORTFORMATS.