Crystal Reports 2008 - saving to Business Objects Edge

Post Author: GWilks
CA Forum: Crystal Reports
Hi,
When trying to Open or Save a report in Crystal Reports 2008 to the Business Objects Edge server, the following message is received:
Access denied. You cannot log on to an older version of the CMS.
Does anyone know when or if these two versions will be updated to support each other?
Thanks,
Garry

Hi Jeffrey,
The problem when ever you see that error is due to the versions mismatch. The is due to a call into one the updated or older versions of the dll that doesn't exist where it is expected.
They MUST be the same version number.
Options are to bring BOE up to SP3 and FP 3.1 also or roll back CR to SP 2 and Fix Pack 2.7.
Thank you
Don

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