The current mobile solution of Android doesn’t support Crystal Reports at all. Sadly, none of this has been extended to Android users yet. There’s no longer a need to send complicated opendoc links to users. Now I can start to get excited about the iPad app as it supports drill-down, interactive parameters, search and has a proper group tree. This lack of interactivity was fixed with the introduction of Service Pack 5. This first release was very basic, just rendering an image of the report with none of the interactivity you expect with a Crystal Report. Dreadful name for the add-0n, but just meant you could use a native app for the iPad to access your Crystal Reports. This had previously been available for the higher products, but not for Crystal Server. More importantly for the purpose of this post, the add-on for Mobile Solutionswas made available. I seem to have missed Service Pack 3 (they were released thick and fast), but Service Pack 4 fixed a lot of the problems with the migration wizard. Bit of an oddity, but due to being the same platform as Business Objects Enterprise. SAP have justified this by renaming Service Pack to Minor Release but as the installer still says Service Pack, it looks like marketing have been getting involved rather than there being any technical change.Ĭrystal Server 2011 was released at Service Pack 2. Last year (2012) there were some major changes in functionality for the Crystal products introduced through Service Packs. Looks like I need to change my recommendations! The exception to all this has been security or compatibility fixes in a Service Pack, but they’re normally solved at the operating system or application server level. The thinking being that there’s no point fixing ten bugs that aren’t causing any problems, then introducing one new bug that breaks something important. I normally leave any in-between patches as they can introduce more problems than they solve due to less testing.įollowing installation, unless a customer had a specific problem, I would always advise not to apply a new Service Pack.
CRYSTAL REPORTS 2013 SERVICE PACK INSTALL
When I install software, I always patch to the latest Service Pack.
CRYSTAL REPORTS 2013 SERVICE PACK FULL
If a software company wanted to introduce new features, they waited until the next full or point release. I’ve always thought that Service Packs for any product were a way of fixing bugs in software after release.