Multiple Versions at Same Time

[ESTAGroup]

Does anyone know if it is possible to run multiple versions of Crystal Reports on the same computer? I'd like to run 7.5 and 10.'

Thanks

 

[synapsevampire]

Yeah, they can coexist.

However you cannot open a cr 10 report using cr 7.

Here's the whitepaper:

http://support.businessobjects.com/library/kbase/articles/c2013795.asp

-k

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
A small caveat:
If you plan on adding Crystal Enterprise tools to your workstation ( especially the Publishing Wizard) there will be conflicts between V10 and earlier versions ( I do not have experience with 9, but did have 8.5 and 10 co-installed)..It will appear to work, but certain actions ( like opening directly from an Enterprise folder, or publishing to an earlier CE version than 10) will be erratic in their success rate.

 

[kenhamady]

I don't think there is a CR 7.5, but there is an INFO 7.5 which may not coexist very nicely with Enterprise.

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[synapsevampire]

Good point, Ken, CR released CR 7 and Seagate Info 7.5, but if they're using CR then they should be fine, the whitepaper covers it.

There may have been an update to CR 7 that made it show as 7.5 in the About, can't recall.

-k

 

[synapsevampire]

Oh and SI and CE probably can coexist for the most part as the file names should be different in 10.

The trick might be getting web services functioning reliably in each simultaneously.

-k