Report schemas for Crystal Reports

XSD schemas define data for the report and properties of the report. Data is displayed in the report according to the RPT report template and the specifications of schemas assigned to the report.

Report schemas

Schema definitions specify data for Optiva business objects.

Schemas are used for two purposes:

  • An XSD schema for the report job file. This defines the XML data for fields of the report, such as name, title, language, input parameters, schemas. There needs to be one XSD file per report.

  • An XSD schema for each object symbol. This defines the XML data for Optiva objects. Crystal Reports uses the object XSD to interpret the type of data in setting up the report, for example, the length of fields. The object schemas are used to show the data appropriate to its type, for example, date format. There is one XSD file for every object that is added to the report.