Migrate from Crystal Report XI R2 to Business Objects XI R2

Hello friends,
As per end of licence life cycle for Crystal report, we need to migrate our 30 crystal reports to BO xi r2.
First thing i need to ask is that ...is this possible to migrate from Crystal report XI R2 to BO xi R2 ?
If yes than where i can find migration guide..i tried import wizard but its not showing crystal reports in list.
please help..
thanks.

Ok. We used the same Administrator user.
It seems first we need to move report to Report Samples than only it shows in list.
If we keep *.rpt under user folders its not being imported.
Import is possible this way only. Now we need to call the report from java.
Which API should we use to print this crystal report migrated to BO?
Regards.
MNBdev

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/people/ludek.uher/blog/2008/10/20/report-designer-component--past-present-future
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