Upgrade Crystal Reports 8 to 2008

hello,
do you guys know if there's a tool or a way that guarantees an upgrade path from crystal reports 8 to crystal reports 2008?
i have a custom who's interested in upgrading like 150 reports. I was wondering if there are ways or tools to do so and if there are limitations to those tools
thanks!

Hi Nabile,
Please let us know where you are using this reports ? On Enterprise or on a stand alone system. If you are using these reports on Enterprise as James Terry said you may have to migrate it to CR Enterprise 9 or 10 and then you have to migrate it to Crystal Reports 2008 Server.
If you are using stand alone system then you will have to pen each report in CR 2008 and refresh and save the report.
There will not be any problem while migrating reports, it will migrate entire report including sub report / formatting / formulas (complex / simple) / images etc without any problem.
In CR 8 you can add / modify the SQL which is generated by CR through DatabaseShow SQL. If you have any report with modified SQL then you will have problem. The modifications will not get carried in CR 2008. Other than this you will not have any problem.
Thanks,
Sastry

Similar Messages

Crystal Reports Server XI 2008 R2 - Problem

We have installed the "Crystal Reports Server XI 2008 R2" and registered the product, if we try to generate the crystal report at the server, it gives the below error message (Message logged at the following path C:Program FilesApache Software FoundationTomcat 5.5logs)
Message:
Alle 0 Lizenzen für den gleichzeitigen Zugriff (Concurrent Access Licenses) werden derzeit verwendet, oder der Lizenzschlüssel für Ihr System ist abgelaufen. Versuchen Sie es später noch einmal, oder wenden Sie sich an Ihren Systemadministrator, um zusätzliche Lizenzen zu erhalten
Could you please let us know what may be the problem

Thanks for the information.
Actually we do not find "Central Management Console" in Start/Programme/Crystal Reports Server 2008/Crystal Reports Server 2008/.
We also tried using the http://webserver:8080/CmcApp/ by providing the correct hostname and also with the IP address; but we get a webpage not found error.
Could you please help us. We are not able to find Central Management Console.
Thanks is advance!!!!

Crystal Report Embedded server 2008

Hi SAP,
I have reports created in Crystal reports 2008 sp1 designer. Reports are created using stored procedures.Reports are called through .net application and placed at Crystal Report Embedded server 2008.If Reports are at local machine they work fine.If reports are at Crystal Report Embedded server 2008 it prompts for parameter and database credentials.
Here is my code
CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument rd= new CrystalDecisions.CrystalReprots.Engine.ReportDocument();
String rptfilepath="ras://C:\Reports\EmbededRpt.rpt";
Rd.ReportAppServer="RasServer";
Rd.FileName= rptfilepath;
Rcd=rd.ReportClentDocument;
System.Data.Dataset ds = this.GetData();
Rd.SetDataSource(CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.DataSetConversion.DataSetConverter.Convert(ds));
CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource=rcd.ReportSource;
Any response will be appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi,
I believe Crystal Report Embedded server 2008 does not come with .NET SDKs. You need to wait for its SP1 release that should make make .NET sdks available for the application.
Thanks.

Crystal Reports & Windows Server 2008

Hi everybody,
I installed Crystal Reports 10 under Windows Server 2008 R2 (x86-64). I need this u201Coldu201D version because I still have some .NET application developed with Framework 1.1.
Unfortunately, I receive the following error: u201CSystem.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.u201D
I created a virtual directory (which point to C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Crystal Decisions\2.5\crystalreportviewers10) and enabled 32-Bit Applications in the Application Pool under IIS 7.
Please notice that with the same configuration, everything works fine under Windows Server 2003.
I eventually tried to install Crystal Reports 2008, but nothing changed.
Did I miss something?
Any suggestion is appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your support,
Best regards

Hi Don,
sorry for my late reply.
Unfortunately I don't use Visual Studio. I developed my .NET applications with Borland Developer Studio 2006, which support Framework 1.1 only.
I tried to install the SP3 of Crystal Reports 2008, but no luck.
I have licensed copies both of Crystal Reports 10 and 2008.
Thank you
P.S. if I use the new version (CR 2008 SP3) of:
CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.dll
CrystalDecisions.ReportSource.dll
CrystalDecisions.Shared
CrystalDecisions.Web
I get the following error:
"The base class includes the field 'crystalReportViewer1', but its type (CrystalDecisions.Web.CrystalReportViewer) is not compatible with the type of control (CrystalDecisions.Web.CrystalReportViewer)."
Edited by: abarone on Mar 28, 2011 12:52 PM

Crystal Report Server embedded 2008 SP3 - Reporitng

Hi, i have aquestion about Crystal Report Server embedded 2008 SP3.
I am currently going to start some development work to use this reporting technology, (usng C# .NET)
Ho can i do server side reporting with out haveing to use a .NET web application that uses IIS.
I want to be able to run a ,NET application from the client that tell my server whic report to process and return back an object.
Is there something where you logon or give it the credentials and returns back an object.
Also to do this will there have to be a client runtime?
I am not sure of how the technology works, so please excuse me if i asked something that does not make sense.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Mithal,
You should have an OEM contract so create a case in Service Market Place and a Rep will work you through how to create and use the various options etc. when using CRSE.
Thank you
Don

Upgrading Crystal Reports XI Release 2 to CR 2008: Where is ReportDocument

I am attempting to upgrade our .NET Crystal Reports code from Crystal Reports XI Release 2 on Visual Studio 2005 SP1 to Crystal Reports 2008 on the same compiler. We use the ReportDocument interface and I can't seem to find it in the new Crystal Reports 4.0 managed directory. Here's the top of the .header file that worked in the old environment:
#using <CrystalDecisions.Shared.dll>
#using <CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.dll>
#using <CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.InfoStore.dll>
using namespace CrystalDecisions::Shared;
using namespace CrystalDecisions::CrystalReports::Engine;
With that code in place, I get compiler errors indicating that the packages can't be found:
c:\dev\sources\videoview_6_6\video\nextlink\reportfaxservice\NReportFaxServiceImpl.h(13) : fatal error C1107: could not find assembly 'CrystalDecisions.Shared.dll': please specify the assembly search path using /AI or by setting the LIBPATH
environment variable
If I comment out the lines as follows and add in the ReportDefModel (the only dll that appears to have a ReportDocument symbol):
// #using <CrystalDecisions.Shared.dll>
// #using <CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.dll>
#using <CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.InfoStore.dll>
#using <CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportDefModel.dll>
// using namespace CrystalDecisions::Shared;
// using namespace CrystalDecisions::CrystalReports::Engine;
using namespace CrystalDecisions::ReportAppServer::ReportDefModel;
Then, I get compiler errors like this:
NReportFaxServiceImpl.cpp(306) : error C2039: 'Close' : is not a member of 'CrystalDecisions::ReportAppServer::ReportDefModel::ReportDocument'
        c:\dev\businessobjects\common\4.0\managed\crystaldecisions.reportappserver.reportdefmodel.dll : see declaration of 'CrystalDecisions::ReportAppServer::ReportDefModel::ReportDocument'
NReportFaxServiceImpl.cpp(941) : error C2039: 'Load' : is not a member of 'CrystalDecisions::ReportAppServer::ReportDefModel::ReportDocument'
        c:\dev\businessobjects\common\4.0\managed\crystaldecisions.reportappserver.reportdefmodel.dll : see declaration of 'CrystalDecisions::ReportAppServer::ReportDefModel::ReportDocument'
NReportFaxServiceImpl.cpp(950) : error C2039: 'SetParameterValue' : is not a member of 'CrystalDecisions::ReportAppServer::ReportDefModel::ReportDocument'
        c:\dev\businessobjects\common\4.0\managed\crystaldecisions.reportappserver.reportdefmodel.dll : see declaration of 'CrystalDecisions::ReportAppServer::ReportDefModel::ReportDocument'
NReportFaxServiceImpl.cpp(974) : error C2039: 'ExportToDisk' : is not a member of 'CrystalDecisions::ReportAppServer::ReportDefModel::ReportDocument'
        c:\dev\businessobjects\common\4.0\managed\crystaldecisions.reportappserver.reportdefmodel.dll : see declaration of 'CrystalDecisions::ReportAppServer::ReportDefModel::ReportDocument'
Here's line 306 of that source file, for example:
NReportFaxServiceImpl::~NReportFaxServiceImpl()
     DESTLOG( LOG_NREPORTSERVER, "NReportFaxServiceImpl::~NReportFaxServiceImpl", "[[[]]]" );
     RFaxCloseServerHandle( _hRightFaxServer );
     // close all the report documents
        IDictionaryEnumerator^ enumReportDocuments = _mapReportDocuments->GetEnumerator();
        while( enumReportDocuments->MoveNext() )
         Object^ reportName = enumReportDocuments->Key;
         ReportDocument^ crReportDocument = dynamic_cast<ReportDocument^>(enumReportDocuments->Value);
/* line 306 */         crReportDocument->Close();
Can anyone advise me of the correct #using directive to specify to pull in the ReportDocument object?
Thanks.

Okay, we seem to be getting somewhere. I switched the /AI directive to point to the managed/dotnet2 directory, but then I get the following warning:
c:\dev\sources\videoview_6_6\video\nextlink\reportfaxservice\NReportFaxServiceImpl.h(15) : fatal error C1107: could not find assembly 'CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.InfoStore.dll': please specify the assembly search path using /AI or by setting the LIBPATH environment variable
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'c:\dev\VisualStudio\VC\bin\cl.EXE' : return code '0x2'
So, I commented out the following line in the header:
#using <CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.InfoStore.dll>
Then, I get the following error when I try to make the project:
NReportFaxServiceImpl.cpp(982) : error C3624: 'System::Drawing::Printing::PrinterSettings': use of this type requires a reference to assembly 'System.Drawing'
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'c:\dev\VisualStudio\VC\bin\cl.EXE' : return code '0x2'
Here is line 982:
                    crReportDocument->PrintToPrinter(1, false, 0, 0);
So, I'm assuming that maybe I need to provide an assembly search path to both the managed and the managed/dotnet2 directories. Is that correct? If so, is order dependent between those two /AI directives.
Thanks.

How to upgrade Crystal report to 10.5.3700

Hi All,
I have standalone Crystal report 10 and VS2008 Professional 2008 SP1 Installed.
the version number for crystal report shown for Crystal report 10 with SP6 is 10.0.1.2522
the version number for VS2008 built in crystal report is 10.5.1943.
I have a project that crystal report is designed by 10.5.3700 so that when I try to open the rpt file .
I get an error says I some feature will be disabled becase the rpt file is designed by late version.
How Can I upgrade both the buildin part and standalone part of report design to 10.5.3700?

try opening the rpt file in the visual studio and saving it again. it should be able to upgrade the reports to the newer version.
for upgrading the project to use the 10.5 references / dlls you will need to remove the 10.0 references from the project and add the 10.5 ones.

Upgrading Crystal Reports for VS2005 Pro

I am currently using VS 2005 Pro with the 10.2.3600 Crystal Reports (CR) version.
I would like to know if it is possible to upgrade to a newer version of CR and still use it with the VS 2005 Pro IDE. I use CR to build and deploy desktop applications which generate reports.
Please advice.

Hi,
You can use RAS SDKs with CR 2008.
Please view this PDF for more information.
http://www.businessobjects.com/pdf/product/catalog/crystalreports/cr_2008_whats_new.pdf
Sincerely,
Amit

Performance Issue when updating parameters in a Crystal Report on Edge 2008

I have several Crystal reports posted into Edge 2008. When you select Edit on a parameter to set the parameters to run the report, it takes a noticably long time for the parameter selection window to appear. Then once you have made your choice, it takes quite a long time to close the parameter selection screen to go back to the scheduling window.
I thought it might have something to do with reports where I have linked the parameter with a table field and appended the values in the report parameter. But, it happens even when there is no link to the data for the parameter.
I've had several users saying it is very frustrating having to wait for the parameter selection.

I am using two infosets that are not linked together by any primary key. The main infoset has transaction records and the second infoset has only one record (which is a foreign exchange rate). The performance is slow and I am presuming its because there are no linked fileds between the infosets, everytime a record is read from the main infoset it goes to the second infoset and also reads the record there. Is there a way to improve performance? How can I have the report read the second infoset only once and store that value to be used when reading records from the first infoset.

Dynamic images in crystal reports for VS 2008

The company logo scenario. The solution I'm trying unsuccessfully to implement entails:
- the logo is not stored in the database, but resides locally on disk
- strongly typed dataset generated by stored proc in sql server 2008
- column defined in a dataset table as sqldatatype.binary, null value
- populate dataset in .net by calling the proc
- edit the byte[] column and replace null with a binary image
- push the data into the report
- print the report to pdf from a web application
Everything works fine, no errors, but if I try and display the blob in the crystal report, nothing prints. If I remove the blob without modifying any of the above code, everything prints (all tables/rows).
I have tried cloning the dataset and substituting the binary file into the appropriate column, thinking that the original might be READONLY, but the same result (prints perfectly if I don't try and show the blob).
Robert

Hi Don,
I have read your response 10 times, but I don't really understand it.
"Your only option is to use the Insert OLE Object or picture into the report" - fine, but how is this achieved from a dataset?
"CR will not display BLOB fields as pictures" - fine, but maybe I used the word BLOB badly. The dataset column datatype is "byte[]". Will CR display byte[] columns as pictures?
"You can use a database field to point to which picture file to use, then you won't be using up valuable memory space importing the images into your data set. And the Logo's now dynamic...." - this seems to suggest that the database field is a string storing the file location on disk. Yes? I don't care about memory space in this case and I'm happy to load a binary file into a byte[] column if there is a way of displaying it.
So, if I understand correctly, you're suggesting the dataset contain a table.row.column which stores the filelocation. How do I convert that to display as a picture (dynamically)?
Robert

How Do I upgrade Crystal Reports 8.5 to Crystal Report XI with ASP Classic

I have application in ASP Classic using Crystal Reports 8.5
I want to upgrade into Crystal Report XI.
What are the considerations & changes I have to take if I still using ASP Classic environment ?
I will be grateful if there is a sample ?
What are the required runtimes files ?

Lots of great samples here:
Root Page
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/BusinessObjectsHome
Enterprise Samples (including managed and unmanaged ras)
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/BusinessObjectsSDKSampleApplications
Non-Enterprise Samples
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/CrystalReportsSDKSampleApplications
Exporting Samples (RAS)
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/NETRASSDK+Samples#NETRASSDKSamples-Exporting%2FPrinting
Thank you
Don

Crystal Reports and Xcelsius 2008 Conference

Hello all,
I'm not sure which forum I should be putting this in so I'm putting it in the General Forum. We just purchased Crystal Reports and Xcelsius in the middle of last year and I missed last years conference. Is there a conference anywhere this year that that will really focus on Business Objects platforms? I downloaded the SAP TechED 2008 schedule for next month but everything seems to really be geared only to SAP activities which we have none of.
Thanks in advance,
Ron

Keep your eyes on the following link
http://www.businessobjects.com/events/
This lists current events for Business Objects and should list the next user conference as it gets closer.

Crystal Reports for VS 2008 deployment on a web server

Hello,
I have .NET web application created in Visual Studio 2008. It uses built-in Crystal Report Viewer control. The reports are not built into the assembly, they are loaded from report files prepared outside of Visual Studio 2008.
I would like to deploy Crystal Reports run-time components on a web server (Windows 2008 server with IIS 7). I have found the article describing what needs to be deployed: https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=56787567
Can you please let me know what kind of setup (virtual folder(s), permissions) is needed to make Crystal runtime components available for my web application. I have been trying to find instructions in the forums/wikis/articles with no success. I will need this info to communicate with our system administrator.
Thank you.

As long as you are deploying your app to a default app pool, you do not need to worry about virtual directories. The process you are running under will need read / write permissions on the win emp folder as the report print engine uses that extensively.
If you are using custom app pool you will have to either
1) create the viewer virtual directory
2) make the viewer folder part of your app directory structure
Other than that, keep the following resources close at hand:
KB 1329630
KB 1278952
[Dynamic images appear as red X on Crystal Reports in VS .NET web viewer|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/a0437ea8-97d2-2b10-2795-c202a76a5e80]
[Viewer toolbar images appear as red u2018X on Crystal Reports VS .NET web viewer|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/50aa68c0-82dd-2b10-42bf-e5502b45cd3a]
Ludek
Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/SAPCRNetSup

Upgrading Crystal Reports 8.5 to XI

I had developed a system using SQL Server 2000, Visual Basic 6 and Crystal Reports 8.5. Everything was working fine.
Recently we installed Crystal Reports XI. I converted all the reports created in Crystal Reports 8.5 into Crystal Reports XI version. When I call the reports from my application it does not work.
If I create brand new report exactly same as previous one it works fine.
I know Crystal Reports XI is downward compatable. WHy my previous reports do not work?
Can anyone know anything about this?
Regards
Emu

Dear Sir
I mean by the sentence "Report does not work" report does not generate for view.
We have 2 problems after installing the Crystal Reports XI in my computer.
Problem 1: The existing reports (.rpt files created by Crystal Reports 8.5) do not work after converting to Crystal Reports           XI format.
After getting the Crystal Reports XI I did the following.
1) Uninstalled the Crystal Reports 8.5
2) Installed the Crystal Reports XI
3) Run my application and generated the reports (.rpt files in 8.5 format). Reports are generated and is viewed.
4) Open the report, did some modification (such as changed the size of text box, dragged the object etc) and saved. Following message appeared
   " This report is from a previous version of Crystal Reports. Do you want to overwrite it with the latest report format?"
   I clicked "Yes". I think the report had been converted into XI format.
5) Run my application and generated this report (just converted into XI format). But the report did not generated. It ended up with runtime error 20713
6) Created a new report using Crystal Reports XI exactly same as the previous report.
7) Renamed the report and Run my application and generated the report (report created into XI format). This report is generated and is viewed.
I have around 72 reports for my application. It will be time wasting to re-create all the 72 reports using Crystal Reports XI.
Problem 2: The software works very slow.
The Crystal Reports XI runs very slowly in the computer. It is awfully slow. It takes 7/8 secs to get focus if I click any object (text box, formula, data field etc.)
It takes 10/12 secs for any objects to be moved after it is dragged.
All other applications and software work well in my computer. My system is healthy and it meets the requirements of installing Crystal Reports XI. Following are the configuration of my computer.
Intel Pentium 4, Processor 3.0 GHz
RAM 768 MB
Operating System: Windows XP Professional version 2002 and service pack 2
10 GB free space in the C drive.
I uninstalled and re-installed the Crystal Reports XI, still it is very slow.
Regards
Emu

Error in upgrade Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 to SP1

During the installation of SP1 of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 (RTM was already installed) I got an error message saying:
Error 2753. The file "agent.exe.6ED28686_7B19_420C_B255_5B6C1BD2C705" is not marked for installation.
After a rerun of the setup program (choosing reinstall) the message did not re-appear.
It happens on Windows 7 x64 with Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Is this a bug in the installation or an "undocumented feature"?
Regards,
Adri

Hi Adri,
I had that error once and one other poster also had it. Like you I just re-installed and no error on the second round.
I believe it was some Windows Process had the file locked for some reason. It's not a bug or "undocumented feature" it's a Windows OS thingy....
Before uninstalling anything it may be a recommendation to reboot first and not load anything that may be locking dependencies.
How many times have you seen this?
Thank you
Don

Upgrade Crystal Reports 8 to 2008

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for