Catalog and Reports upgrade from ver. 6 to 7 2

[crpaculan]

Hi,

We created our catalog and reports in Cognos Impromptu-(Administrator Version) using version 6.0.

We will now deploy it the users, but the Cognos-Impromptu Users Version) is version 7.

Will I be encountering errors?

Cristina.

 

[viRtuAlinsaniTy]

When anyone opens a "version 6" report or catalogue in Version 7 - Cognos will say to them "Cognos has recognised this as Version 6 - Do you want Cognos to upgrade this to Version 7 for you? Yes or No?" or something similar. It will then take a few seconds where it will upgrade it and then ask the user where to save the new one to.

It might be an idea to upgrade all of them yourself before rolling them out to the users if this is your strategy, then they won't have to worry about where to save new versions to etc. Just a thought ;-)

Good Luck

 

[BruceReed]

Just one small warning, if you upgrade to ver. 7, there is no going back. You will NOT be able to re-open in ver. 6 again. If you need both versions, do NOT upgrade, or keep 2 copies of everything around. If you are just going to use ver. 7-->discard this warning!

Good luck
Bruce

 

[CognosProfessional]

Before deployment, just open up all reports in a test environment and make sure they all work properly. Yes, you must keep zipped up back up files just incase in every upgrade situation. I wouldn't leave it up to all the users to upgrade files.

CP