Customview report versus Seagate reports 1

[leeniep]

Hi, my company is still using Customview report writer/runner version 2 and we would like to update to Seagate reports. I have been told that this is what Aspect is selling/recommending/using these days. Since I have been out of the Aspect world for a couple of years until recently can anyone enlighten me on if this is the case and if the Seagate report package is something special from Aspect or if any Seagate report package can be used. Also, can the report templates we are using with CV be converted to Seagate?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Leenie P

 

[Moebius01]

ReportRunner/Writer is end of life as far as Aspect is concerned (I'm not sure if they still even support it or not), and they do indeed now suggest Crystal Info. As far as converting, yes, it can be done, but it is a rather tedious process.

Runner/Writer was built on Crystal Reports 5 which used a very different dictionary method than Crystal Info's views. So the reports need to be converted to use the new views and make sure all the formulas are still compliant.

I seem to remember some manner of conversion tool that we tested, but I believe it was third party and we never tried it. The only thing I seem to recall never getting an answer on as far as conversions was CustomView specific functions. (WriterDate, and the like).

 

[leeniep]

Moebius01

So I think what you are saying is that you can convert but need to verify that all converted correctly. Also that you must have Seagate Crystal Info not Seagate Crystal reports?

Thanks for the help. Leenie P

 

[Moebius01]

Crystal Info is/was (I think they renamed it) a server cluster designed to schedule & run reports and distribute. Think of it as the ReportRunner, where Crystal Reports would be ReportWriter.

On the conversion side, yes, you can convert. The biggest trick is to watch for CustomView specific functions that may not have a logical Crystal counterpart.