We are in the process of moving from Seagate Info to BOE XI r2 and I'm trying to get a bunch of nitty-gritty details worked out.
Background:
We have three separate environments - Development, QA, and Production. Reports are developed and unit tested in the Dev environment, tested in QA, and then moved to Production as part of a larger software release. Periodically, reports that already exist in Production are updated and moved to Production through this process. Because we MUST keep the existing historical instances of reports (i.e., we can't delete the old version and add the new one), we update the existing report either through the "Properties|Refresh" button or using UpdateReportEX.exe that was available for download from Seagate. The great thing about this utility is that we copy the new version(s) of the report(s) to the report server as part the install script and then the install script calls this utility which updates all reports on the server without manual intervention.
Question:
How do I update existing Crystal reports in BOE? I've currently published @500 reports to my test server using the Publishing Wizard, which doesn't update existing reports, but creates a new entry for them with "(2)" at the end. I DO NOT want to go through a multi-step manual process for this because of the risk of errors. Is there a way to do this through the .NET API?
Thanks!
-Dell
A computer only does what you actually told it to do - not what you thought you told it to do.
Background:
We have three separate environments - Development, QA, and Production. Reports are developed and unit tested in the Dev environment, tested in QA, and then moved to Production as part of a larger software release. Periodically, reports that already exist in Production are updated and moved to Production through this process. Because we MUST keep the existing historical instances of reports (i.e., we can't delete the old version and add the new one), we update the existing report either through the "Properties|Refresh" button or using UpdateReportEX.exe that was available for download from Seagate. The great thing about this utility is that we copy the new version(s) of the report(s) to the report server as part the install script and then the install script calls this utility which updates all reports on the server without manual intervention.
Question:
How do I update existing Crystal reports in BOE? I've currently published @500 reports to my test server using the Publishing Wizard, which doesn't update existing reports, but creates a new entry for them with "(2)" at the end. I DO NOT want to go through a multi-step manual process for this because of the risk of errors. Is there a way to do this through the .NET API?
Thanks!
-Dell
A computer only does what you actually told it to do - not what you thought you told it to do.