Upgrading to RB 10

rbuser

Hello,

I recently purchased RB version 10 Enterprise. I am currently using version
7.03. Before I actually perform the upgrade, I wanted to ask a few
questions:

1. My confirmation e-mail stated that version 10 would upgrade my reports.
How does this happen? I have my reports stored within multiple databases.
Do I need to copy them to disk so that the upgrade process can find them?

2. Will reports that have not been upgraded to version 10 run properly?

Thanks,

Al Willis

nicocizik

Hi Al,

The upgrade process is automatic. Your report templates will be upgraded to
the new format when they are loaded into RB 10. This is usually very prompt
and you will probably not notice a difference in performance. You will need
to save each template to your database once it has been loaded to keep the
RB 10 format.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Nico,

Thanks for the reply. A little more information: I have over 400 reports.
Is there a batch conversion available? I don't want to have to manually
individually load so many reports.

Thanks,

Al

nicocizik

Hi Al,

Unfortunately we do not have an automatic way to convert multiple reports at
once. The first thing I would try is load an old report into the newer
version of ReportBuilder. I'd be willing to bet that the time difference
between loading an old report and loading a new one is negligible.

If however you would still like to upgrade all of your report templates, it
would not be too difficult to create a simple app that traverses through
your items table and loads and saves each one of your reports automatically.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Al:

I've *never* converted my reports to the new version (been with DM since
Piparti Pro 2 (maybe 1, I can't remember) and Delphi 1)--I just let it occur
when the user loads the report. Never had a problem.

HTH,
Ed Dressel
Team DM

rbuser

Ed Dressel [Team DM] wrote:

You're showing your age, Ed.

Bill