Does running a Classic report in RTC consume a licence?

colingbradley

NAV2009R2

I understand that a Processing Only Classic report does not consume a licence but what about other reports?

The client is asking that if it is so difficult to convert their complex sales invoice, why not use the Classic report without RDLC code.
Can someone throw some light on this please?

This is a useful link:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nav/archive/201 ... hings.aspx

Not quite sure if the general comment applies that ALL Classic reports without RDLC will not consume a licence.
Seems that way but would like to be clear.

clausl

Running a Classic report from the Role Tailored client in NAV 2009 does not consume and extra session.

But I'm not sure why you say that it is difficult to convert the Sales Invoice report, are the Invoice reports very much different in Spain from the rest of the world?

I would think you could this in a couple of hours. If you want reporting training, just write me a private message and I will be happy to show you how.

Upgrading the customer to NAV 2013 would be even better, because the Visual Studio 2010 Designer has improved a lot compared to Visual Studio 2008.
And then you could do the conversion even faster.

/Claus Lundstrøm

colingbradley

Thanks for the reply confirming the session usage.
The biggest issue seems to be that the lack of a footer means a workaround to count the lines and force the footer data to print at the bottom of the page.

We have what we have right now, just a lot more work to get all the sections to print in something like the same style as the Classic version.

I have a home in Spain but do most of my work in the U.K.

Cheers,
Colin

golfer

Unfortunately running a classic report from RTC does consume a license. It is very frustrating and hard to explain to the customers.

colingbradley

Seems we have a disagreement here.

clausl wrote:

Running a Classic report from the Role Tailored client in NAV 2009 does not consume and extra session.

Is there anyone with an authoritative source, say from Microsoft?

Presumably also, the RTC user would need to have the Classic Client installed as well?

clausl

When we designed the "Classic report fallback" feature for NAV 2009, it was important for us that it did not consume an extra session. To have Classic report fallback, you of course have to install the Classic client side by side to the RTC.
If you run the report from RTC, the Classic report will opened and use the same session as your open RTC.
Of course if you open both Classic Client and RTC from Start, you will use 2 sessions, but if run the report from RTC it uses only one.

If this is not the behavior you are seeing, I would report this to Microsoft as a bug.

/Claus Lundstrøm

golfer

It is a fact that if you have 10 users logged in and a license with 10 users you will hit the limit when trying to run classic reports from RTC. Once the report run is finished, it will release the session. This is the case for several of our clients. Some of them actually bought some extra users just to make sure they would be able to print order confirmations, invoices etc. which in turn are the most complex reports and most likely to be run in classic mode until they are converted.

I do not have the technical skills to argue or elaborate to any why and how questions, I can just confirm the issue. It can easily be reproduced when using a customer license.

As for bug reporting, as I understand it, this is well known and considered "this is by design". Claus; if you have deeper insight on how to solve this we would be happy to get any tips or knowledge

Best regards
Patrik