Article: Convert Crystal Reports to ReportBuilder. --------------------------------------------------
We do not have any automated conversion from Crystal Reports. However, most customers find that converting existing reports to ReportBuilder requires much less time than they imagined. Following the steps below should provide a good estimate of the amount of time and experience that is required.
1. Spend some time going over RB Developer's Guide. This is an excellent first step to learning how ReportBuilder works.
2. Work through the tutorials and demos provided in the Developers Guide and in the ReportBuilder installation. These give you hands on experience on how to implement the most important features of ReportBuilder. They will also give you a good idea exactly what
ReportBuilder is capable of. 3. Pick a representative sampling of your reports and implement them in RB.
Below is a list of the locations you can find the resources described above:
Search through the newsgroups because there was a post a few months back from someone who had just gone through converting a significant number of CR reports to RB. If I remember correctly, he did mention creating a utility for this task.
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Article: Convert Crystal Reports to ReportBuilder.
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We do not have any automated conversion from Crystal Reports. However, most
customers find that converting existing reports to ReportBuilder requires
much less time than they imagined. Following the steps below should provide
a good estimate of the amount of time and experience that is required.
1. Spend some time going over RB Developer's Guide. This is an excellent
first step to learning how ReportBuilder works.
2. Work through the tutorials and demos provided in the Developers Guide
and in the ReportBuilder installation. These give you hands on experience
on how to implement the most important features of ReportBuilder. They will
also give you a good idea exactly what
ReportBuilder is capable of.
3. Pick a representative sampling of your reports and implement them in
RB.
Below is a list of the locations you can find the resources described above:
- RB Developer's Guide: \RBuilder\Developer's Guide\...
- RB Demo Applications: \RBuilder\Demos\...
- RB Tutorials: \RBuilder\Tutorials\...
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
Search through the newsgroups because there was a post a few months back
from someone who had just gone through converting a significant number of CR
reports to RB. If I remember correctly, he did mention creating a utility
for this task.
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Bob
I tried searching prior to posting but there was a lot of crap to filter
through - do you know if the post was within the Digital-Metaphors ng realm?
Yes, the post was most certainly in a DM ng.
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Bob