Worried about this upgrade, we have tons of published CR 11 reports that are run in on-demand url mode (viewrpt.aspx?id=...), everything works great but we must upgrade...should I be scared? Will everything still work the same way or will it all have to be rewritten/configured/published from scratch?
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Upgrading from BOE XI R1 to 3.1...worried
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You may have to reconfigure the URL's, but I don't think you'll have any problems with the reports themselves. We had several hundred CR XI reports in XI r2 that worked with no problems after the upgrade.
The best advice I can give you is to test the upgrade well before putting it into production. There are some major differences in the look and feel of InfoView and the CMC, but I think most of the changes are well worth it.
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The best advice I can give you is to test the upgrade well before putting it into production. There are some major differences in the look and feel of InfoView and the CMC, but I think most of the changes are well worth it.
-Dell
A computer only does what you actually told it to do - not what you thought you told it to do.
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Thanks a lot for that info, I feel a little better. If I may bother you further, when you upgraded, was it really an upgrade to XI or did you have to do a clean install of 3.1 and then republish/reconfigure everything from scratch? We have over 500 published reports and many versions of custom apps that call them in various ways, I would not relish the thought of having to start all over again.
3.x requires a new database schema for the CMS and Auditing databases. What we did was
1. Completely uninstall XI r2 then install 3.1 pointing to the new database schema. (If your FileStore is on the same server as BOE, be sure to back it up first.)
2. If the FileStore is on the same server as BOE, copy it into the correct folder in the new install.
3. If your FileStore is on the network, update the configuration of the Input and Output file repositories to point to the correct location. The reason for this is that some of this information is stored in the registry.
3. In the CCM, stop the SIA and go to Configuration tab of its Properties. When you click on the "Specify" tab for the CMS databse, you get the option to "Copy data from another Data Source". Use that to copy the data from your old CMS database to the new one. This will take a while and there is a validation that will run afterward that makes sure that all of the objects are still in the FileStore.
I did this in the Dev, QA, and Production environments with not problems at any point.
-Dell
A computer only does what you actually told it to do - not what you thought you told it to do.
1. Completely uninstall XI r2 then install 3.1 pointing to the new database schema. (If your FileStore is on the same server as BOE, be sure to back it up first.)
2. If the FileStore is on the same server as BOE, copy it into the correct folder in the new install.
3. If your FileStore is on the network, update the configuration of the Input and Output file repositories to point to the correct location. The reason for this is that some of this information is stored in the registry.
3. In the CCM, stop the SIA and go to Configuration tab of its Properties. When you click on the "Specify" tab for the CMS databse, you get the option to "Copy data from another Data Source". Use that to copy the data from your old CMS database to the new one. This will take a while and there is a validation that will run afterward that makes sure that all of the objects are still in the FileStore.
I did this in the Dev, QA, and Production environments with not problems at any point.
-Dell
A computer only does what you actually told it to do - not what you thought you told it to do.
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