Question on Upgrading from .CSP to Visual .Net for BI Platform

[stacy_cramer]

Hi,

We are upgrading from BO Enterprise Release 2 to BO BI Platform 4.0.  Years ago we had a web page created using the .csp pages provided way back when to display reports in viewer with the ability to export in a few applications(excel, pdf, etc.).  I'm a crystal reports developer and do not know the web portion and my web developers are having a difficult time looking thru the examples and connecting it to the BI Platform structure.

If anyone could provide us with any direction, it would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks, Stacy

[former_member224821]

Hi Stacy,

CSP (short for Crystal Server Pages) back in the XI versions was similar to ASP page development prior to .Net.  Depending on the number of and complexity of the csp pages, you might want to consider first whether you still have a need for the csp pages in the recent version of BOE 4.1.  For example, if it is just to view or export reports to pdf, then you could eliminate the csp page altogether by building a query string using the OpenDocument sdk.  No programming required.

But if the csp pages do more than that then as others pointed out, most like a full rebuild of those pages in .Net and the sdks.

Hope that helps.