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[franklin1232]

I have an old application that use version 6 to create reports. The viewer is embedded in this application and I have to way to upgrade to a newer version. I need to make some simple changes to the a few of these reports. Can I do this from version 8.5 or above? It always want to upgrade the report. If not does anyone know where I can get media. I have already tried my Crystal Rep. He can find anything older than V7.

thanks

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Maybe EBay:

http://search.ebay.com/ws/search/Sa...1&sabdlo=&sabdhi=&fsop=1&fsoo=1&fcl=3&frpp=50

Using any newer version will update the format and your viewer may no longer work..Have you checked with the vendor of the app for updates?





To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[franklin1232]

I have a few e-mails out the the sellers on ebay already. Yes the vendor has updates, but it requires us to change platforms. Long story short to get to the version that uses 8.5 my company would have to make a 1.2 million dollar investment in hardware.

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
ODD..Perhaps it is time for a new vendor...


What is your current platform, OS and App?

( Just curious, never known one that old to be so hard to update)..





To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[synapsevampire]

Try this:

http://store.retrosoftware.net/

You also might check with some of the olde timers hereabouts. I threw out my old versions, but some people probably have CR 9 disks that you can copy.

Here's the URL to Ken Hamady's homepage, from there you can reach lots of people creating Crystal software, seems many would be a good candidate:

http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html

-k

 

[franklin1232]

The application is part of the Squirrel Point of Sale system. In the restaurant industry it is very common to find restaurant running windows 3.11 or DOS with Serial touch screen terminals. Our servers are Windows XP, but the version of software we run is meant for much older systems. Why, because ethernet based terminals to run the new version of software is a huge investment and will take us the next 3 years to complete the 40 locations. I have copies going back to 8, but thats not old enough.

 

[synapsevampire]

I saw CR 5 and 7 for sale on the above link, give it a try. Perhaps soemone has CR 6 as well.

-k

 

[IdoMillet]

Another option is to modify & save the reports in a newer version of Crystal and run them directly in Crystal (or in a Crystal Viewer if you deploy to many PCs) instead of via the application.

- Ido

Visual CUT & DataLink Viewer:
view, e-mail, export, burst, distribute, and schedule Crystal Reports.

http://www.MilletSoftware.com