Crystal 2008 Export to excel Issues 1

[scottm87]

We are working on some reports for a clients of ours, converting reports from Crystal V8 to Crystal 2008. We noticed that the reports seem to export differently when exporting to Excel. We are using the standard export to excel (not the Data only).

The issue we have is that the Group Headers in Crystal 8 would only show up once when exported to excel. However, in Crystal 2008, they act more like Group Headers and show up with every change in group in the excel file.

I've tried tweaking how the groups are setup and with the export options to no avail, Any ideas?

Our main objective as set by the client is 100% parity, so, we need to do this without affecting how the report looks and feels within the Crystal viewer.

Also, does anyone know of a website or document that contains Export to Excel changes throughtout the versions of Crystal. It make sense that some things with the Excel export must of changed between V8 and 2008.

Thanks,

Scott

 

[hilfy]

I don't know that there is any documentation readily available comparing all of the versions back that far - the software has gone through three ownership changes since then. There are probably consultants who have done this sort of comparison but I don't know of any that are available online.

I don't know that you're going to be able to get the 100% parity that you're looking for. There have been some very significant changes in the report structure and the types of exports that are available. The way that groups were handled in the Excel export in v8 was actually a bug that has been fixed, which is why you're seeing the differenced.

-Dell

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

 

[scottm87]

Thanks for the post, that's pretty much what I thought, I just needed someone to re-affirm.

My team and I have identified about 6 - 8 major differences between Crystal 8 and 2008 export that will prevent us from getting parity as the client mandates.

Without documentation from SAP (or Business Objects, or Seagate) it will be a bit difficult to explain why we are not deleivering parity.

Thanks Again,

Scott