Migration from CR 8.5 to CR 10 - What is to do?

[BarbaraFuhrmann]

Hi,

we're just about to upgrade from CR 8.5 to 10. Now I'm looking for advisory or kind of to-do-lists to migrate existing reports.

Does someone has helpful information for me?

Thanks
Barbara

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
No real migration needed:

The 8.5 reports will work fine in CR10, but, once opened/saved from CR10, they will no longer open in 8.5.







To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[BarbaraFuhrmann]

Hi Turkbear,

it seems to me that you've just answered some times to my threads. Thank's for that!!

I've just found out what you wrote in question of migration. In general it applies that there is no migration needed but, for instance, I also found out that I have to work on every chart because we did not remove the default mark for the text in the past. Seeing that the default has changed from "empty" to some text I now have to clear this fields for every (bar) chart. Also the export to excel is different and I have to reengineer al reports that are build to export data into excel files. Unfortunately I don't know what I have to change exactly.

I wanted to ask for migration needs of those type. Can you give me some advise in this case?

Thank you
Barbara

 

[Madawc]

When we migrated, just one report went wrong. It had a complex selection and Crystal 10 was taking a stricter view of something we had got away with in Crystal 8.5.

The particular problems are likely to be unique, unfortunately.

On the business of Excel, maybe start another thread saying just what the problem is. What did it used to do and what does it do now?

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Windows XP & Crystal 10

 

[spedi]

Migration has many routes.

1. Plain; move the old code base without changing anything.

2. Consolidate formulas, logos (images); copyright text and then publish in a repository; so that formulas can be managed and shared across different individuals and reports.

The second option is lengthy but would save a lot of time and effort in future.

As far as excel is concerned; in the CR 9 onwards their is no limitation on 65k rows. I have exported the reports with over 700K rows; the way it does is; it creates multiple tabs of data, if the data exceeds more than 65K rows.

Enjoy
Srinath

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