Crystal Report Roadmap and improvements

[former_member956604]

Hello everyone !

We are using an old version of crystal report and are willing to go a higher version.

We have many questions regarding crystal report evolution.

- We have like 100 different reports. How can we update them quicly to the new version of Crystal report ? (2008 -> 2016)

- The last release was done in May 2018, where can we find the roadmap of crystal report ? When do you plan to have a new release ?

- Will the new release be an extension of crystal report 2016 or a new one ?

- .Net core 2.0 was not enough to support crystal report as you said in lots of reports. What about .Net core 3.0 ? Microsoft is emphasing a lot on there .Net Core framework. With 3.0 you can not say anymore that this is a light version.

- Visual Studio 2019 will soon be up and running, will crystal report be avaihable in this next version ?

Thanks for your time,

Best Regards !

[former_member956604]

Hi,

I come back to you with a new question.

Do you plan to release a new version of Crystal report ?

Rigth now there is Crystal report 2016, do you plan to release a crystal report 2020 or something like that ?

If we purchase a crystal report 2016 key, will we have access to all future release ?

Best regards,

Remi

[former_member11696]

Try searching on help.sap.com for the road map, if it's available you'll find it there.

Core is not going to be supported, we still need the full framework.

I tired SP 24 in VS 2019 and it works, it's not integrated into it though but it's on the road map for SP 25.

[sbarskiy]

When you say Core is not going to be supported, you mean never? I know that other reporting frameworks, Telerik and Syncfusion to name a few, already have such support. Why is SAP making a decision not to support framework that Microsoft sees as the future? Seems like technically this is possible, just requires a major re-write, no? And if so, why not take that on to benefit many customers?

Thanks.