
CR6 and CR8 playing well together
Actually we are running Access 95 and 2000 on the same
machine. All we had to do is change a font file and they
worked fine together. There just happened to be some
documentation on the Microsoft website that told us
exactly what to do. I can't even find an article on the
Crystal webside that even mentions 6 and 8 in the same
document. As I said, we don't really have the option of
upgrading the other program at this time. So we have to
find some other solution. Anyone else have any ideas?
Thanks,
Carol
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>-----Original Message-----
>Crystal installs a lot of DLL's in the windows\system and
>windows\crystal directories - and CR6 and CR8 use
>different versions of those. CR8 will run the CR6
>reports, so moving them up isn't a problem.
>But your App with CR6 reports may experience problems as
>the new DLLS' haven't been compiled in that EXE. You
>don't try and Run Access 95 and Access 2000 on the same
>machine, and Cr is in the same category. It should just
>be a matter of the developer installing the CR8 on their
>machine and recompiling - so not a lot of work requried
>there.
>The only solutions I can see are separate machines, or
>use an App like VMware or Partition Magic to install the
>two apps where they can't see each other.
>Good luck.
>> We have an older system that has reports created in
>> Crystal Reports version 6. Now we have created another
>> program for different purposes but it uses Crystal
>> Reports version 8. We need to be able to run both
>> programs on the same machine.
>> We can install version 8 on the machines and specify to
>> leave the older version on the machine. Everything
>> seems to run, no errors reported or anything. But
>> when you look at the data of the reports run in
>> version 6, the selection formula is totally messed up.
>> Comparing a report run on a machine with both and a
>> machine with only 6 produces totally different output.
>> Has anyone ever run into this before? It really isn't
>> an option to update the older program. Another
>> division has control of all maintenance and development
>> done on it and they say it isn't an option right now.
>> I really don't want to have to redo all my reports in
>> the older version of Crystal either. Any help would be
>> greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
>> Carol
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