Upgrade to a newer veresion questions of Crystal Reports

We currently have crystal reports 7 and we are having issues linking to databases on a new computer, so I have been thinking about upgrading. I have someone here telling me it was a big deal last time they upgraded. My question is what do I have to expect to get our Crystal Reports created in version 7 to funcition correctly in the newest version which is 12, I think. Will they automatically convert right over, or is there going to be someone work invovled in remapping, and moving things around???

Hi Lindsey,
I've gone from 8 to 2008 with almost no problems. About 90% of my reports worked fine and some were very intensive reports.
The few that needed work were ones that were designed to print on pre-printed forms. So I did have to move things around to fit on the form again for those. I also had 1 report that used a UFL I created. I had to make changes to the function in Visual Basic but again that was pretty minor.
I also had some custom programs using the Crystal RDC that needed to be upgraded as well. Again, nothing major but some refrerences were changed.
I would recommend making a copy of all your reports, download the trial version of Crystal 2008 and give it a try on a few reports. Most should work out of the box.
Good luck,
Brian

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