It was brought to my attention that there were a couple of errors in the following blog entry, so I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight the corrections and apologize for it.

Colleen's name

In the post, I have her listed as Colleen Rinehart (which is her maiden name). Her name is Colleen Murray. My apologies Colleen, my only defense is that I still call the part of app designer for editing records Record Editor.

Discontinuation of Subreport Support in Crystal

I'm not sure how I misheard this one, but the official source has chimed in (Colleen herself). Therefore, Support for Subreports in Crystal will NOT be dropped in future releases

Here's some background behind subreports and Crystal.

Prior to PeopleTools 8.48, there was limited subreport support in Crystal (due to a limitation in the ODBC driver that fetched data from PeopleSoft Queries... it was single threaded, meaning only one query can be run per Crystal Report). In PeopleTools 8.48, the initial work to support Crystal Enterprise provided a new mechanism for Crystal to connect to Queries (using the Analytic server under the covers) that allowed multithreaded access to the connection, thus enabling multiple queries to be fetched from simultaneously (thus allowing full subreport support in that release). It's good to hear that customers who leveraged that functionality can continue to do so (and that it's not being affected in upcoming PeopleSoft releases).

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