Does .rpt Inspector™ 2 Professional Suite (for CR9.x) support CR10?

Synopsis

I need to work with Crystal Reports® (CR) 10. Does .rpt Inspector™ 2 Professional Suite (for CR9.x) support this?

Solution

The short answer is... Yes! .rpt Inspector™ 2 Professional Suite (for CR9.x) as of version 2.01 has been renamed to .rpt Inspector™ 2 Professional Suite (for CR9.x-CR10.x). When we released .rpt Inspector™ 2 Professional Suite (for CR9.x) in Feb. 2004, we had not yet completed our testing of CR10 reports. However, after its release and several months of extensive testing, we are pleased to announce that .rpt Inspector™ 2 Professional Suite (for CR9.x) was able to work with reports saved by CR10. The file format of CR10 is the same as that of CR9. However, .rpt Inspector™ 2 Professional Suite (for CR9.x-CR10.x) is currently compiled with dependancies on CR9 libraries and APIs and therefore requires that CR9 be installed on the same system as .rpt Inspector™ 2 Professional Suite (for CR9.x-CR10.x). You can easily have both CR9 and CR10 installed on the same system to support this. A future version of .rpt Inspector™ Professional Suite will be recompiled around CR10 libraries and APIs. Additionally, you should be aware of two features that are introduced in CR10 that are now support in CR9, however according to Business Objects information, CR9 should still open such reports but suppress such features. These features are Funnel charts and Business Views.