Crystal 8.5 Upgrade

[Flopper]

Is there any issues with regards to upgrading to 8.5 Report Designer and viewing Reports held on a Web Server that uses the 8 components. i.e. The web server has not been upgraded and the client machine has. I have upgraded my machine and can view reports via the version 8 web server but i'm not too sure whether this is a fluke as a number of other people cannot.

I cannot seem to find any information on the Knowledge Base at Crystal Decisions.com
Thanks

 

[kenhamady]

I can't speak from experience, but this is what I have been told so it might help.

There is no difference in the structure of the RPT between 8 and 8.5. However, if you use any of the features or functions that are new with 8.5, the 8 engine will not recognize them.

The client shouldn't shouldn't need CR at all, since the report is running on the server.


Was an older version of the CR Web Server ever installed on the server? Make sure no older components are hanging around. Ken Hamady, On-site Custom Crystal Reports Training & Consulting
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[kevj]

Guys,

This is exactly what I am trying to do, given the fact that 8.5 doesn't come with any Web Components, and the licensing for Enterprise is, to say the least, steep.

I have a Web Server running 8, which I've never had a problem with using my reports also written in 8.

However, a colleague has done some work in 8.5 and asked me to publish them on my web server - result, client machine gets an iexplore.exe error and falls over.

I've looked through her report, and she doesn't appear to have used any non-8-y features...

Thoughts?

Kev

 

[kenhamady]

That is interesting. Maybe someone knows exactly what is happening here and can jump in. The first question seemed to indicate that if the client had 8.5 things were fine. If the client had 8, there was a problem. That puzzles me since the client shouldn't need either since the appropriate viewer is supposed to download. I wonder what happens if CR isn't
installed.


Also, what happens if you open the v8.5 report in the v8.0 designer, make a minor change like sizing a heading, and save it. Does that somehow make it a v8 report and allow it to run successfuly? Ken Hamady, On-site Custom Crystal Reports Training & Consulting
Public classes and individual training.
Guide to using Crystal in VB

http://www.kenhamady.com/

tek@kenhamady.com

 

[kevj]

Ken,

Understand point about 'client' not needing CR - I'm talking about reports written on one machine, and moved over to the webserver. Then being viewed in the normal IE way on a completely standard non-CR machine. This is when the problem with IE happens. (N.B These machine can view my original reports fine, hence have the ActX viewer downloaded already!)

As for your last point. I tried that, and it didn't work. I also tried opening in 8.5 again and saving as a 7/8 .rpt file still with no joy.

The strange this is that an 8.5 report opened and execute in 8 works..... Its JUST the WCS...

I'm lost.

Kev

 

[kenhamady]

This must be a bug, but I am surprised it hasn't been uncovered. Did you search the Crystal KB to see if it is a known issue? Ken Hamady, On-site Custom Crystal Reports Training & Consulting
Public classes and individual training.
Guide to using Crystal in VB

http://www.kenhamady.com/

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