Copy Crystal 9 Reports/Change DB 2

[ciscowiz]

I have a directory of crystal 9 reports that are pointing to a particular database. I need to copy the reports in this directory to another directory to be used by a different database. They both use the same fields in their reports, only thing that needs to be changed is the datasource location. Is there any way to export or copy these reports and have the DB changed with the copy? Its kind of a pain to go through every copied report and do it manually when there are about 70 reports for each of the 8 DB's...

Thanks,
Bryan

 

[fredp1]

Have a look at Ken's Link page @

http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html

There seams to be a product rtp Inspector that may do what you looking for. Since I don't use... i can't vouch for it.

Fred

 

[SFLLC]

ciscowiz,

fredp1 is correct (thanks fredp1) in that our product will help you with this.

.rpt Inspector 2 Professional Suite allows you to modify various objects and their properities across one or more report at the same time. And with version 2 we've completly redesigned our datasource (now called data source / database migration and conversion wizard) to allow you to do exactly what you're looking for.

This new wizard allows you to select one or more reports and select multiple sources to a destination for set location, convert driver, verify database. And we support ODBC / OLE DB / Native DB2 / Native Informix / Native Oracle / Native SQL Server / Native Sybase.

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