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johney
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Hi

Is there any tool to convert an existing Crystal Report into FEX file.

Thanks and regards,
Johney.

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Version 7.6.11
Webfocus installed in AIX 5.3,
desktop PC: Windows-XP based
Output: Excel, HTML, PDF
 
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RickW
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We saw a vendor's dog and pony show about a "tool" they had but my impression is it really just did the simplest of reports. Can't recall the name of the company but it was based in India.

WF and Crystal are totally different animals - it's pretty academic reading any Crystal functions/code and translating to FOCUS code, IMHO.


WebFOCUS 7.6.6/TomCat/Win2003,SQL Server 2005,Oracle
 
Posts: 125 | Location: New England | Registered: February 20, 2007Report This Post
Tony A
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Is there any tool to convert an existing Crystal Report into FEX file.
Yes, and it's called a WebFOCUS Consultant or an experienced A/P. Wink

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Jason K.
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are you giving up Crystal Reports to move to webfocus?


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Darin Lee
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When I started work here, they had many reports in Brio and Crystal Reports. The output was great and the creation process was pretty simple, but the flexibility of WF, the multi-DBMS access and the Dialogue Manager scripting capabilities, made the decision to move to WF pretty much a no-brainer. Both of the other tools disappeared.

The bad news is that all of those report had to be converted by hand. We used the tool that Tony referred to which worked out well. In a few cases, we stole the SQL generated by Crystal and pasted it into fexes that run in WF via SQL passthru, but the actual format/layout was still a manual process.


Regards,

Darin


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WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
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DLautzCinci
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If anybody is interested in converting Crystal Reports to WebFOCUS, please see the following links:

Here are basic FAQs about the BI Consolidator: http://bi-software.blogspot.co...nsolidator-faqs.html

Our DAPPER methodology is explained at: http://bi-software.blogspot.co...retiring-legacy.html

If you have other Business Objects products such as DeskI and WebI, see this: http://bi-software.blogspot.co...usiness-objects.html

Sincerely,

Doug Lautzenheiser
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