Hi! My company is considering upgrading from CR 8.5 to CR 10 and I am trying to see if there is a whole lot of difference as far as practical uses between these two versions. Anyone have some experience to be able to tell what the major differences are that make CR 10 more useful than CR 8.5 (Practically)?
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Crystal Reports 8.5 Vs 10 6
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Blatently jumping on the upgrade to v10 bandwagon..!
One thing that I find frustrating in my organisation is exporting to Excel. (I may be doing it all wrong)
Where I work I am the only person with CR (ver9 professional). In the majority of cases I create the report and then upload it to a programe which allows user to view the data using a Crystal Viewer.
I then requests for reports to be used by an indivdual for research purposes. In the majority of theses cases a quick export to *.pdf does the trick.
My problems arise when the research is more complex and further data anaylsis needs to take place - hence I need to export it to excel.
My question is - does v10 (or v11 - any advance tips..?) deal with exporting to excel better than v9. Ideally it would be in a similar way that Business Objects deals with exporting to excel.
Thanks for your help,
Vis
One thing that I find frustrating in my organisation is exporting to Excel. (I may be doing it all wrong)
Where I work I am the only person with CR (ver9 professional). In the majority of cases I create the report and then upload it to a programe which allows user to view the data using a Crystal Viewer.
I then requests for reports to be used by an indivdual for research purposes. In the majority of theses cases a quick export to *.pdf does the trick.
My problems arise when the research is more complex and further data anaylsis needs to take place - hence I need to export it to excel.
My question is - does v10 (or v11 - any advance tips..?) deal with exporting to excel better than v9. Ideally it would be in a similar way that Business Objects deals with exporting to excel.
Thanks for your help,
Vis
Its pretty much the same as v9.
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The news I've read indicate that CR 11 will provide dynamic & cascading parameters. Long overdue...
Cheers,
- Ido
CUT, Visual CUT, and DataLink Viewer:
view, e-mail, export, burst, distribute, and schedule Crystal Reports.
Cheers,
- Ido
CUT, Visual CUT, and DataLink Viewer:
view, e-mail, export, burst, distribute, and schedule Crystal Reports.
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Ido or anyone else,
In the news that you have read, was there any mention about the license resrictions for the next release of Crystal Enterprise (CE)? My understanding is that SQL Reporting Services has unlimited user licenses when it come to scheduling and viewing reports whereas the "Free" version of CE comes with 5 NAMED licenses.
I am evaluating CE and SQL Reporting Services and this point seems a bit troubling to me.
Thanks for your comments.
Fred
In the news that you have read, was there any mention about the license resrictions for the next release of Crystal Enterprise (CE)? My understanding is that SQL Reporting Services has unlimited user licenses when it come to scheduling and viewing reports whereas the "Free" version of CE comes with 5 NAMED licenses.
I am evaluating CE and SQL Reporting Services and this point seems a bit troubling to me.
Thanks for your comments.
Fred
Dynamic Parameters:
pick list populates on the fly based on values in the database
Cascading Parameters:
pick list in one parameter gets populated based on the choice made in a previous parameter. For example, select Product Type(s) in one parameter and the next Product Parameter will show only Products within the selected Product Type(s).
Cheers,
- Ido
CUT, Visual CUT, and DataLink Viewer:
view, e-mail, export, burst, distribute, and schedule Crystal Reports.
pick list populates on the fly based on values in the database
Cascading Parameters:
pick list in one parameter gets populated based on the choice made in a previous parameter. For example, select Product Type(s) in one parameter and the next Product Parameter will show only Products within the selected Product Type(s).
Cheers,
- Ido
CUT, Visual CUT, and DataLink Viewer:
view, e-mail, export, burst, distribute, and schedule Crystal Reports.
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