Crystal 2008 Compatibility

[pungigis]

Couple of questions, Is Crystal 2008 v1 sp2 compatible with business objects xi r2??? When I try to open a report from enterprise I get an error saying I can't open a previous version of the CMC. How do I determine what version/sp of business object I am running???

 

[hilfy]

Reports written in CR 2008 will run in BO XI r2 as long as none of the new features in CR 2008 are used.

However, CR 2008 will not connect to a BO XI r2 CMS. To publish a new report you will have to log in to either InfoView or the CMC and create it there - it will ask you to select the .rpt file to upload. To update an existing report, I think you can use the Publishing Wizard.

-Dell

A computer only does what you actually told it to do - not what you thought you told it to do.

 

[pungigis]

Ok so currently all our reports are housed in enterprise so I would need to pull them out to view them in Crystal 2008 then republish them to bo??

 

[hilfy]

To pull them out, open the report in InfoView then export to a .rpt file.

I would only pull them out on a case-by-case basis when a specific report needs to be updated for some reason.

-Dell

A computer only does what you actually told it to do - not what you thought you told it to do.

 

[hilfy]

Oh, and I would also store copies of everything outside of the BOE file repository. That way if your server dies and you don't have a valid backup of the repository, you can rebuild your system - been there, done that, it's not pretty!

-Dell

A computer only does what you actually told it to do - not what you thought you told it to do.