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Mick Board
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 Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 4:13 am Post subject: Upgrading from Crystal Reports 9 to 10 |
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Has anyone gone down the path of upgrading from Crystal reports 9 to 10.
I'm interested in finding out if there are any pitfalls. Also, is it easy
to convert existing reports?
Kind Regards,
Mick.
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Gert de Boom
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 1:20 pm Post subject: Re: Upgrading from Crystal Reports 9 to 10 |
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| Quote: | Has anyone gone down the path of upgrading from Crystal reports 9 to 10.
I'm interested in finding out if there are any pitfalls. Also, is it easy
to convert existing reports?
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I don't have any real world experience, but from the few hours of testing
experience I didn't find that much changes. At least not in the RDC and VCL
programming environment. None of the changes broke existing code in my
program (but please note that my programs don't use the RDC extensively).
For the reports itself I think that Crystal always has always done a great
job in providing backwards compability. Reports made with an earlier version
are mostly running in a new version without any problem.
Gert
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Mick Board
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 12:38 am Post subject: Re: Upgrading from Crystal Reports 9 to 10 |
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Thanks Gert,
Version 9 is the first version we've used and I was under the impression
that the reports didn't always convert across easily (if developed in an
earlier version). This could have been a misconception on my part.
When we do move to version 10, we are going to have to get existing reports
at client sites working under the new version, hence my questions.
Kind Regards,
Mick.
"Gert de Boom" <gdeboom (AT) dontspamme (DOT) wxs.nl> wrote
| Quote: | Has anyone gone down the path of upgrading from Crystal reports 9 to 10.
I'm interested in finding out if there are any pitfalls. Also, is it
easy
to convert existing reports?
I don't have any real world experience, but from the few hours of testing
experience I didn't find that much changes. At least not in the RDC and
VCL
programming environment. None of the changes broke existing code in my
program (but please note that my programs don't use the RDC extensively).
For the reports itself I think that Crystal always has always done a great
job in providing backwards compability. Reports made with an earlier
version
are mostly running in a new version without any problem.
Gert
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Brion L. Webster
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:40 pm Post subject: Re: Upgrading from Crystal Reports 9 to 10 |
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Gert de Boom wrote:
| Quote: | For the reports itself I think that Crystal always has always
done a great job in providing backwards compability. Reports made
with an earlier version are mostly running in a new version
without any problem.
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Your experience is quite different from mine. Crystal 6 & 7 were
very painful to upgrade to. Crystal 8 took my Crystal 7 reports
decently in the designer. I just got my Crystal 10 CD's, but
haven't installed them yet. Lots of time to test required first.
-Brion
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Gert de Boom
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 10:09 pm Post subject: Re: Upgrading from Crystal Reports 9 to 10 |
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| Quote: | This could have been a misconception on my part.
When we do move to version 10, we are going to have to get existing
reports
at client sites working under the new version, hence my questions.
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As said before, I don't have any real world experience. My knowledge is
based on a couple of hours testing. But you could take a quick test yourself
by downloading the trial version of Crystal 10.
Gert
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Mick Board
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| Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:21 am Post subject: Re: Upgrading from Crystal Reports 9 to 10 |
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Thanks Gert and Brion,
I'll bear all this in mind and exercise some caution.
Regards,
Mick.
"Brion L. Webster" <brion.webster (AT) nospam (DOT) ci.fresno.ca.us> wrote
| Quote: | Gert de Boom wrote:
For the reports itself I think that Crystal always has always
done a great job in providing backwards compability. Reports made
with an earlier version are mostly running in a new version
without any problem.
Your experience is quite different from mine. Crystal 6 & 7 were
very painful to upgrade to. Crystal 8 took my Crystal 7 reports
decently in the designer. I just got my Crystal 10 CD's, but
haven't installed them yet. Lots of time to test required first.
-Brion
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