Crystal Reports Migration

Hi All I am doing an upgradation project, in which i need to upgrade Crystal Reports developed in 5.x,6.x,7.x to Crystal Reports 11. The existing reports contains few formulae embeded with the SQL Query.Using CRPE32.dll (Crystal Reports Print Engine) they used to get the query, change the formulae to the actual values and then set query back to the reports. How the above process can be implemented with the Crystal Reports Server 11 with RAS. Kindly advice me with the deployment process too. Thanks in AdvanceRajkumar,S

Unfortunately, you are unable to modify the report's SQL Query at runtime using the runtime SDKs.Â The closest you can get isÂ modifying the SQL usedÂ in a CommandÂ table.Â So you couldÂ convert the report to use a Command table and then modify the SQL at runtime butÂ this will requireÂ you to manually open the report andÂ change it to useÂ Command tables.
I'm not sure a sample exists on how to change command tables but I found this kbase (c2018813) which could help you get started on modifying the SQL for Command tables.Â The kbase doesn't do exactly what you need but it gives you an idea on which objects you need to use.
-MJ

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