Desperately seeking info about upgrading Crystal Reports.
Currently we have CR 6.0 in a VB6 application. Moving to Windows 2000 so we need to upgrade Crystal. I've heard that there is no conversion - that the 6.0 reports must be rewritten from scratch. In testing this theory, I created 8.5 reports and copied in formulas from the 6.0 reports. That seemed to work, so I pulled up a 6.0 report in 8.5 and saved it. It stated that I had a version 5 or 6 report, and asked if I wanted to save it in the latest format. I said yes, and again I had no trouble running it from the VB6 GUI.
I don't want to rewrite all these reports if I don't have to. Have tried email to CR support with no response. Have done endless searches on the Knowledge Base to no avail. Anyone who can tell me where to find info on going from CR 6.0 to 8.5 would be much appreciated.
Currently we have CR 6.0 in a VB6 application. Moving to Windows 2000 so we need to upgrade Crystal. I've heard that there is no conversion - that the 6.0 reports must be rewritten from scratch. In testing this theory, I created 8.5 reports and copied in formulas from the 6.0 reports. That seemed to work, so I pulled up a 6.0 report in 8.5 and saved it. It stated that I had a version 5 or 6 report, and asked if I wanted to save it in the latest format. I said yes, and again I had no trouble running it from the VB6 GUI.
I don't want to rewrite all these reports if I don't have to. Have tried email to CR support with no response. Have done endless searches on the Knowledge Base to no avail. Anyone who can tell me where to find info on going from CR 6.0 to 8.5 would be much appreciated.