Migration - From SQR reports to BI Publihser

Gurus,
currently working in bi publisher reports works.
we looking forwards, project coming up more report migration project.
from crystal to bi publisher and SQR to bi publihser.
Please quide us, step into the project.
Its any migration workbench tool for the same.
Thanks, Krishnaraj.

Oracle Reports can be migrated (mostly, your mileage will vary) using the conversion script/JAR files in BIP. Crystal Reports - you're on your own.

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Well, you can migrate, you can not upgrade (semantics I suppose). E.g.; the RDC was deprecated in CR XI r1 and retired in CR 2008. Thus there is no way for you to upgrade to version 12 of the RDC as there is no such thing. So, from here, you have two options: migrate / port the app to .NET, or Java SDKs.
Re. RDC, see my blog here:
/people/ludek.uher/blog/2008/10/20/report-designer-component--past-present-future
For porting the app to .NET, see this article:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e0eb394f-931e-2b10-3b82-9413bfc3f457
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Hello friends,
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Ok. We used the same Administrator user.
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I have migrated my crystal report version from version 8 to version 11 (evaluation version) but I am seeing some formattiong issue
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Post Author: DJ Gaba
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My previous experience of porting BEx reports to BO as is, without puting extra filters of something, to reduce the huge data size images was not good at all.
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Im working with RedHat Linux. 5, Forms & Reports 10.
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http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jheadstart/index.html
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i have read lots of documents regarding best practices on how to built webi reports and universes on top of BW.
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I come from BO world and are new on reporting on top of BW.
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So ,according to me there is a gap between both tools (BEX and WEBI) but end users are the same.
So i 'm wondering if you have any feedback for the best approach to build webi reports where end users are coming from bex reporting.
And how to choose between prompts, drill-down (with available filters on top of the window), fold/unfold and input controls or just having diffrent levels of hierarchies in the table/ section/ breaks but without drill down (because if you drill down, report begins weird with diffrent levels) ...?
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Hi,
WEBI don't replace BEX reports, is for different audience, in fact BEX is for OLAP reports and analysis.
You can find some answer in this page
[FAQ: The Future of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence in the Light of the NetWeaver BI & Business Objects Roadmap|FAQ - The Future of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence in the Light of the NetWeaver BI&Business Objects Roadmap [original link is broken]|FAQ]
spercific for What is the future of the BEx Query Designer? you can read here
[FAQ - The Future of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence in the Light of the NetWeaver BI&Business Objects Roadmap [original link is broken]#section11] and here [FAQ - The Future of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence in the Light of the NetWeaver BI&Business Objects Roadmap [original link is broken]#section3]
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Migrate from Crystal Report Server XI R2 to new Eclipse RAS SDK Question

Hi,
I am migrating Crystal Report Server XI R2 RAS SDK to Eclipse RAS SDK which seems to be quite easy.
I have the following old code which basicly programmaticly creates a Report from scratch adds a Table and then
populates the Report with a Pojo Collection.
 
Now before I would have : 
 
Table oTable = new Table(); 
oTable.setName("reportTable"); 
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oTable.getConnectionInfo().setAttributes(pbConnAttributes); 
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doc.getDatabaseController().addTable(oTable, null); 
 
getDatabaseController().setDataSource(pojoCollection, pojoClass.class,"reportTable", "reportTable");
 
 
Now wenn using the c lient eclipse RAS SDK which pbConnAttributes should I use? 
No matter which ones I choose I get a Bad Driver Exception or Named Exception. 
Can anybody help?
Edited by: snake-john99 on Aug 11, 2010 10:35 AM
Edited by: snake-john99 on Aug 11, 2010 10:39 AM

Hi Mikael,
Since you're already on CR Server XI R2, you can use the Upgrade Management Tool to migrate all the content to CR Server 2013.
Anwers to your questions:
1) Yes, the Upgrade Management Tool does support this kind of migration
2) It does seem that the UMT allows you to move all report instances as well as the scheduled jobs over to the new server
3) I've always had issues with Business Views when using Import Wizard however I'm not sure whether they work well with the new UMT. In any case, I always prefer to export the LOVs and BVs from within the Business View Manager to a .xml file and then import them in the higher version of the Server, again, from within the Business View Manager.
-Abhilash

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Ludek -
Thanks for this much information. I might end up using CR .Net with VS2005 or VS2008. But I want to carefully understand what my options are. Please see my further queries inline with your responses.
1) Is it mentioned somewhere when we agree to MS Visual Studio 2005 terms that we cannot be using the RDC for report creation and viewing in our custom applications?
License agreement
DT-> Is this the Visual Studio 2005 licensinig agreement that we agree.? Do you have an extract of the same for me?
2) It looks like the last known version which supports RDC is CR XI R2- are there different variants of CR XI R2 and which one should be the one that gels well with Visual Studio 2005/Visual Studio 6.0? Would the dll's CRDesigner.dll, CRViewer.dll and craxddrt.dll be available with it for our usage?
+Yes, CR XI r2 is the last version to ship the RDC. Re.craxddrt.dll. Remember that you need extra licensing for this dll - as opposed to craxDrt.dll which is part of the free runtime. For more info re. licensing of craxDDrt.dll, talk to sales as they will be able to explain this in more detail (866-681-3435).
DT-> Can I used the functionality presented by the CRDesignerctrl.dll at run time when I am using craxdrt.dll? What are the differences in CRaxddrt.dll and craxdrt.dll, in terms of the usage? Are CRDesignerctrl.dll and CRDesigner.dll different?
For more info re. RDC see the following:
RDC statement of Direction
Using the Report Designer Component in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET article.
Note 1217809
Report Designer Component - Past, Present & Future blog.
My question to you would be this; Since you have .NET and are willing to upgrade to CR XI release 2, why do you want to use an unsupported technology (unsupported in .NET). And a version of CR that will be out of support in June of 2010 and thus patch support will be terminated some moths before that. Why not use the CR SDK for .NET?
DT-> We have an almost complete application written on CR8.5 with VS6.0 and wanted to ramp that up to the right level which is new. I might really end up using CR SDK for .NET, but want to understand the cons well, before I finalize tomorrow. I want to minimize developmental effort and yet would like to stay at the latest level.
Ludek

Migrate from Crystal Reports to XMLP?

We have a bunch of reports implemented with Crystal Reports and we are planning to migrate those reports to XMLP. Is that possible? Dose anyone has the same problem? What is the general process? I have no experience about XMLP before.
Thanks in advance

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How can we achive the same thing using XMLP? Since Formula Fields are widely used in our reports. You said the data should be the simplest, dose it mean we calulate whatever we need in the query/extraction and feed the RTF with the final result using XML?
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Migrating from Crystal Reports 9 to 2008 Issue

Hello,
We have quite a few reports in our product that were built of of tables in a database. One report in question has fields from two tables. We used to load the report in VB6, and set the SQLQueryString property on the report equal to a select statement to select specific rows for the report.
We are trying to change these reports to use DataSets. The idea is to populate a dataset with all the data the report needs, and set that as the data source. No matter what I do, i cannot seem to get data to show up in the report. I've tried creating a dataset with two tables, named identically to the tables we were using out of the database, and then filling the dataset with ALL the records from both tables. Then I tried creating a dataset with one table, with columns from both tables, neither seem to work.
After creating the dataset, we are using the Set datasource location in Crystal, and updating it to use the Dataset we created. I've verified the dataset has rows, and everything seems like it -should- work fine, but no data is populated.
I did notice that when changing the datasource location to the dataset, the Tables retained their old names with the name of the table in the dataset in parenthesis. I thought about merging all the fields from both tables into just one table from the dataset, but could not find an easy way to do this without having to completely redesign the report.
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Moved your post to the .NET SDK forum.
Ah, that will be a problem, CR no longer allows editing the SQL statement so those old reports are going to cause problems.
First also, you did not say but you can't use the RDC or OCX or CR 2008 in .NET 2010
Go to this page and download the CR for VS 2010 installer: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/crystalreports-dotnet
Bottom of the page: http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_13_0_1.exe gets CR installed into VS 2010.
Then you can use RAS which is the replacement for the OCX and RDC.
Then if you need .NET samples see this page to get you going:
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/NETRASSDK+Samples#NETRASSDKSamples-Exporting%2FPrinting
A couple of ways to possibly fix those legacy reports.
General over view is to:
1. Rebuild your reports from scratch and use your XML files as the data source
2. Rebuild your reports and use the DataSet as your report source ( BIG warning here, DS's are limited to the amount of data so better to use XML as the source )
3. Hit the Database directly and use Record Selection API's to add your filters to the data
4. Use database Command which allows you to enter SQL directly and edit it in code.
All methods are likely going to have problems due to you altering the SQL manually.
The replacement for edited SQL in legacy reports is to use a Command Object, you see this in the database wizard.
I have code that will convert a report based on 1 or 2 tables and convert it to a Command Object as the data source but this may not work for you depending on what the report started with.... More tables and it won't work.
Not going to suggest DS's as they will cause problem for the end user when they start using your app to archive the database.
For XML, use the below code to get your data into a DS and then save the DS as a XML file with the Schema.
Once connected to your data sources use this code to export/save the DS to XML format:
// this writes to the data and schema to a file
ds.WriteXml("c:
sc.xml", XmlWriteMode.WriteSchema);
// this sets the report data source to the DS or XML file
rpt.SetDataSource(ds);
Once you have it save in XML format you can now create your reports of the XML file, Set Location likely won't work for you.
You can then not use DS's in your app and simply dump the database fields you are using into the XML. Once this is done simply updating the XML file will refresh the data in the report.
For using Command Objects
You can get the SQL from your old reports and then set the SQL of your Command using RAS. I've never tried this with edited Legacy Reports but should work as long as you don't use or try to update the Legacy report in code.
Once you do manually re-create the legacy reports or possibly using the Table -> Command code you can then modify the SQL to follow your original report progression in your legacy app.
Let me know which route you want to go and I'll paste in the code to get you started...
Thank you
Don

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