Crystal Reports Migration Steps

[#1]

We are in the process of migrating crystal reports from one BOBJ 4.1 Server to another as the organization is splitting. What are the steps for migration? This is what I came up with:

1) Source CMC: Using Promotion Management export all the reports and their dependencies to an LCMBIAR file.

2) Target CMC: Using Promotion Management import the LCMBIAR file.

3) Using Promotion Management Promote all the crystal reports

4) Test and Validate that the reports work as expected

[JohnClark · Accepted solution]

Review this document: Pattern Book on Life Cycle Management - Promotion Management.

It provides some guidance and several sample queries for migrating content using the lcm_cli.bat command line utility which is recommended for migration large numbers of reports.

I've used the lcm_cli.bat migration method for a couple of upgrades now and it works very well.

[reehan_mohammed · Accepted solution]

Thank you!

[DellSC]

You also need to make sure that you migrate the "Repository Objects" if any of the Crystal reports use dynamic parameters or business views defined in the Business View Manager.

-Dell

[reehan_mohammed]

Thank you!