Independent Data Consultancy
More and more Crystal Server users are now finding that their maintenance has expired even though they haven’t cancelled anything. That’s becoming more of a problem now that Crystal 2016 and earlier are no longer supported. Before we look at your options, why has this happened? First, a bit of history (a little simplified). Crystal […]
Had a strange problem with File Events after migrating reports from an existing Crystal Server 2011 (SAP BI 4.1) to Crystal Server 2013 (SAP BI 4.2). The customer was making extensive use of File Events to trigger reports. It was nice to see the feature being used well, but for some strange reason the events […]
A customer had been using Gmail for their SAP BI SMTP server for the last 6 months. All worked fine and setup was simple. Early in February, they started to have intermittent problems sending reports by email. Probably once a week, the schedules would just fail. The fix was to simply rerun the failed instance. […]
The official line from SAP: Crystal Server 2011 Standard and Enterprise Maintenance Notice Crystal Server 2011 mainstream maintenance is scheduled to end Dec 31st 2015. Crystal Server 2011 customers with current support may continue to renew this year and during 2016. At the end of mainstream maintenance, priority-one support will begin and continue through Dec […]
