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Convert Crystal Reports/MS Access Reports to Wyn Reports

You can convert a Crystal Reports report and/or a Microsoft Access report to Wyn Reports by running the ActiveReports Import Wizard.

Converting Crystal reports/MS Access Reports in the ActiveReports Import Wizard

  1. Run the ActiveReports Import Wizard. The wizard can be run from the start menu or by executing GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Imports.Win.exe from C:\Program Files\Wyn Enterprise\Tools\ActiveReportsTool location.

  2. In the ActiveReports Import Wizard that appears, click Next.

    ActiveReports Import Wizard

  3. Choose Microsoft Access (mdb or accdb) or Crystal Reports (rpt) as the input format and click Next.
    ActiveReports Import Wizard - Select Input Format

  4. Click the ellipsis button to browse to the location that contains the files that you want to import. A list of files that you can import appears.

  5. Select the reports to import, click Open, and then click Next to analyze them.

    ActiveReports Import Wizard - Select Crystal Report File

  6. Use the ellipsis button to select a destination folder to store the converted reports. Also select an output format (Section Report, Page Report or RDL Report or Both) for each report in the Output Format column.

    ActiveReports Import Wizard - Select Output Format

  7. Click Next to start the conversion.

    ActiveReports Import Wizard - Start the conversion

  8. Once the conversion process is complete, click Finish to close the wizard and go the destination folder to view the converted reports. You may optionally leave the check on for the Open Log file checkbox to see the results log.

    ActiveReports Import Wizard - Import Complete

The import wizard converts reports to the closest possible format, but due to differences between products and versions, the extent to which your reports are converted depends on your specific report layout. You may have to partially redesign the report and add script or code to get the same output as Microsoft Access Reports or Crystal Reports.

When converting to Page Reports or RDL Reports, whether a report is imported as a Page Report or RDL Report, depends on the following factors:

• If a report has a single detail section it is imported as a Page Report.
• If a report has a CrossTab control and its layout is composed of multiple sections it is imported as an RDL Report.

Note: Sections in a report appear as BandedList.

Please refer to the additional information below, to understand the conversion process in detail.

Importing Crystal Reports

To convert Crystal Reports, you need to install Visual Studio and Crystal Reports for Visual Studio on your machine. The supported versions of Visual Studio and corresponding Crystal Reports are as follows:

Visual Studio Editions Crystal Reports Assembly Version
2008 Professional, Team System Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2008 10.5.3700.0
2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 ... SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio 13.x.x.x

Crystal Report controls are converted as follows:

Crystal Report Section Report Page Report/RDL Report Note
Box Shape Container The LineWidth property and rounded boxes are not imported. If the Box control extends to multiple sections, the box is imported as line controls.
CrossTab Subreport BandedList CrossTab control is not imported as it is.
Line Line Line The size of Dot and Dash (the LineStyle property) is not the same as the original report.
Subreport SubReport Subreport Set the subreport in code after conversion.
TextObject Label Textbox Only page number, total page, page n of m in Special Fields are imported.
FieldObject TextBox Textbox Only page number, total page, page n of m in Special Fields are imported.
Picture ... Container Picture object is not converted.

Importing Microsoft Access Reports

To import Microsoft® Access® reports, you must have Access 97, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010, or 2013 installed on your system.

Microsoft Access report controls are converted as follows:

Microsoft Access Report Section Report Page Report/RDL Report Note
Rectangle Shape Container Controls placed inside the Rectangle control are also imported along with the parent control.
ChekBox Label Textbox ...
Image ... Image Image control is not converted while converting to a Section Report.
Label Label Textbox ...
Line Line Line ...
Page Break PageBreak Container In Page Reports and RDL Reports, the PageBreakAtEnd property is automatically set to True on importing a Page Break control.
Subform/Subreport SubReport Subreport ...

Limitations in Crystal Report/MS Access conversion

• Any controls, functions, and text formats which are not supported by Wyn Enterprise are not imported.
• The shadow property of a control is not imported while converting a report.
• The OLE object is not imported as it is treated as PictureObject in the object structure of Crystal Reports.
• In Microsoft Access reports, VBA code appears in as commented statements in script. You have to modify the code after importing.