Jerry
I work for Hitachi Consulting and you're right on. We offer report
migration as a service using tools we have created. We cannot sell software
to do this for a number of reasons. Crystal and SRS reports are very
differnt in structure. The success of migrating a report depends on the
design of the original report. The fact is that if you want your users to
have a good reporting experience, in may cases you'll probably design your
reports differently in Reporting Services. There isn't a one-shot
conversion tool that will deliver consistent results for all reports. We
typically ask clients for some exempary reports so we can give them an idea
about what they're in for.
Paul
Post by JerryI think legally you can not create a tool to convert from crystal (.rpt)
format to rdl, even if you create it you can not sell that tool. Usually most
of the companies sells the "service" of report's convertion. ReportDoctor
sell the convertion's services.
Now Hitachi have it, I would love to see the terms and conditions for the
Hitachi's product.
Thanks
Jerry
From Crystal [Licence.pdf]
4.6.5 (Excerpt)
"End User agrees not to alter, disassemble, decompile, translate, adapt or
reverse-engineer the Runtime Software or the report file (.RPT) format"
"End user agrees not to use the runtime software to create for
distribution
a product that converts the report file (.RPT) format to an alternative
report file format ... or product that is not the property of Crystal
Decisions"
Post by vvrI am having trouble getting answers to this......Are there any converters
other than RDL Generator from Hitachi or rpttoSQL that will convert rpt files
to rdl files? Those of you that have migrated from Crystal to MSRS, could
you please enlighten me on how you accomplished this?
Thanks