How To Copy Crystal Reports files from one Server to Another Server

[former_member1368668]

I just have not found the right thread for what I am trying to do and ask. Please forgive me if this has been answered already. Here is my situation.

We had the cart before the horse - we had a production environment without a test environment. I just created a test environment that I think mirrors what we have in Production (with the obvious difference of test pointing to test data and prod pointing to prod data). I have SAP BO 4.1 SP6 (server, client, and crystal reports) on both servers. The test server was a brand new install so I set up all the ODBC connections from scratch and they all test successfully. I believe the only piece missing on the test server are the actual Crystal Report files. So my question is, how do I get those from Production to Test?

I read that copying them from server to server via the \FileStore\Input folder is a no-no. Is that correct?

I also read to use Promotion Management. That scares me a bit because I am not promoting, I am demoting. I also want to make sure I am not copying any production configuration settings to test. This leads me to another question - these CR files are like templates (meaning no data or data configuration attached to them), correct? It is the ODBC connection that takes care of that, correct?

It's not a easy as just copying a bunch of RPT files from one server to another server, is it?

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[DellSC · Accepted solution]

"Promotion Management" is just a tool for copying objects from one environment to another. Don't let the name scare you - this is the way to migrate content from Prod to your Test environment. If you have access to the server, you might want to use the Promotion Management Wizard instead of the Promotion Management app in the CMC.

-Dell

[former_member1368668 · Accepted solution]

This worked wonderfully. Thank you.