Migration of business view

I am migrating my content from 6.5 to BO XI or from DEV->UAT. If i only want to migrate BusinessViews and its related content what options i need to choose in Import Wizard?
Thanks
nirav

Generally we select "With Export". However, you can choose without export also. The difference is, when you use With Export, the data source can be recovered in BW 3.5.
Without export wont allow you to recover the datasource from BI7 to 3.5
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you can find an article about Crystal Reports on Universe here:
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