1219045 - Is Crystal Reports backward compatible?

• Are reports created in Crystal Reports 9 or higher backward compatible?
• Is Crystal Reports backward compatible to previous versions of Crystal Reports?
• Can we open a report created in Crystal Reports XI in Crystal Reports 2008 or higher?
• Can a report created in a newer version of Crystal Reports be edited in an older version of the product?
• Can a report created in an older version of Crystal Reports be edited and viewed in the latest version of Crystal Reports?

• Crystal Reports 9
• Crystal Reports 10
• Crystal Reports XI
• Crystal Reports XI R2
• SAP Crystal Reports 2008
• SAP Crystal Reports 2011
• SAP Crystal Reports 2013
• SAP Crystal Reports 2016
• SAP Crystal Reports 2020

• Reports created in older versions of Crystal Reports can be open, edited and refreshed in the latest version of Crystal Reports.
  
  For example: Crystal Reports 20202 can open, read and refresh a report that was originally created in Crystal Reports XI
            
• In more details: Reports created in Crystal Reports are backward compatible. This means, later version of Crystal Reports can open, edit and refresh a report that was originally created in Crystal Reports version 7 and later.
       
• Exceptions:
     
• Reports that contains formatting formulas that use the evaluation time function WhileReadingRecords.
  For more details, see the SAP Knowledge Base Article  1218899
    
• Crystal Reports XI and higher, cannot report off Crystal Dictionaries, Queries or Info Views.
  For more details, see the SAP Knowledge Base Article 1219071
        
• Reports based off the SAP BW Query Driver are not supported in Crystal Reports 2011 and higher. 
  For more details, see the SAP Knowledge Base Article 1716438
              
• Reports created in later versions of Crystal Reports can be opened and saved in earlier versions of Crystal Reports, however, functions exclusive to the latest versions will not be available in the lower versions.
          
  For example: Dynamic Parameter did not exist in Crystal Reports 9, therefore if you create a dynamic parameter in Crystal Reports 2013, and open the report in Crystal Reports 9,  then the parameter will not be dynamic. It will be static, since the functionality did not exist in that version.
              
• WARNING: We strongly recommend that you create backup copies of reports created in Crystal Reports 8.5 and earlier, prior to saving them as Crystal Reports 9, and higher, because this action cannot be reversed.

• Crystal Reports 9 and higher support Unicode. Earlier versions of Crystal Reports do not support Unicode. Therefore, once a report has been saved in Crystal Reports 9 or higher, the report cannot be opened in Crystal Reports 8.5 or earlier.

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