Development effort from Crystal Report 10 to Crystal Report 2008

[Former Member]

Hello

We have all reports developed in Crystal Reports 10. I am trying to give a time estimate of converting them from 10 to the latest version of Crystal 2008. I am no expert in Crystal Reports or its technologies. So, my question is

1. Is it easy to convert an existing report from 10 to the latest Crystal Report 2008? (Is it as easy as opening a report and saving it in 2008 and then it will work fine?)

2. Is it a complete rewrite of the crystal report 10 to Crystal report 2008 because Crystal report 2008 architecture is different?

3. An average what is the development effort to change an existing Crystal Report 10 to Crystal Report 2008.

Any help, or links where I can further investigate is appreciated.

[Former Member]

You didn't mention how many reports but it shouldn't take much more than opening the reports in CR2008, refreshing the data and possibly doing a Verify Database, then re-saving them.

Of course I know nothing about the complexity of the reports but considering they worked in CR10 the above should be enough.