Converting RB5 to RB7

rbuser

I am moving from RB 5 to RB 7.

Are the report templates compatible?
If not, can they be converted? How?

Thanks
Rui Menino

digitalmetaphors

They are compatible when moving from RB 5 to RB 7. If you try to move from
RB 7 to RB 5, then you will receive property loading errors, although it may
be able to load it correctly after that. The templates should convert
automatically with no problems from RB 5 to RB 7. Be sure to backup your
templates before trying to convert them. To convert, all you need to do is
load the template into an RB 7 report and save the template in the new
format.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Thanks

One more question, just to confirm (because I have a lot of reports
distributed on my clients),
do the report templates saved on a database field, load and print correctly
from RB7 without saving them before?

Thanks again
Rui Menino

digitalmetaphors

Yes, you should be able to run those reports without saving them first.
Backup the database before trying to modifying them in RB 7. After you load
a report into the designer, you will get a message when you try to exit the
runtime designer if you want to save your changes, since the reports will be
converted upon loading. The designer will consider them as modified. Once
you save them, they will be in the RB 7 format.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors