Symposium V 4.2 Express and Crystal Versions

[sjerrett]

One of our supervisors seemed to have a problem importing a user-created report designed with Crystal 8.5 into Symposium. I tried designing a report in Version 10 of Crystal and followed the instructions for importing...several times. It never showed up in the reports display.

Is Symposium version-specific in its use of Crystal Reports? The docs mention Crystal 9, but we only have Versions 6, 8, 8.5 and 10 (an evaluation copy).

 

[sandyml]

Depends on what release of Symposium you have.

Rls 5.0 (just released): Crystal Pro 9.0
Rls 4.2: Crystal Pro 8.0 (8.5 Q3 '02*)
Rls 4.0: Crystal Pro 8.0
Rls 3.0: Crystal Pro 7.0
Rls 1.5: Crystal Pro 7.0

* Assumes you have up to date Symposium peps

 

[sjerrett]

It's the little things....

I discovered that there's a menu option that isn't mentioned in the docs. From the Reports window, View/User-Created Reports is UNchecked by default. Selecting it shows the newly imported reports.

With version 4.2 of Express, both Crystal v 8.5 and 10 can be used to design user-created reports.

BTW, the Symposium trainer that was here originally had the same problem with importing reports. It was HIS conclusion that we needed version 9 of Crystal.

 

[sandyml]

LOL!
As long as you don't use any version 10 features that are not available in the version of Crystal that Symposium is using, you should be okay.