Migrating Crystal 8.5 to Crystal Server 2008

Hi,
We have classic ASP application that uses Crystal 8.5 reports. We are migrating the application to .Net and want to use CR 2008 as we are planning deploying it on 64bit machine. In original (classic ASP) code, we were changing SQL for the report thru' code. Basically, we were adding sorting and whereby clause depending on filters selected by user.
i.e.
session("oRpt").SQLQueryString = sSQL
How to do the same in asp.net for crystal 2008? Does crystal 2008 expose such property?

Crystal 8.5 reports have a VERY different internal structure than those written in Crystal 9 and above. This includes the fact that in 8.5 and below you could directly modify the SQL that Crystal generated but in 9 and above you can't. Instead, Crystal now gives you the option of using one or more "Commands" in place of selecting and joining tables in the report and letting Crystal generate the SQL.
So, you really have two issues here:
1. You're going to have to upgrade your reports. From experience, if you have made ANY manual tweaks to the SQL, you probably will have to recreate them from scratch! They will not work correctly if you just open them in a newer version of Crystal and save them. When we tried this, it looked like the tables and joins were all set up correctly in the Database Explorer, but the SQL generated by Crystal didn't have any joins in it.
2. If you're just modifying the selection criteria, table names (possibly for use of temp tables), database connections, etc. then you'll want to use the ReportDocument object model when generating/viewing reports. However, if you need to modify the SQL as a whole, you'll have to use the Report Application Server (RAS) interface as that is the only way you'll have access to the actual command.
-Dell

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