Downgrade report from Nav 2013 R2

Lec11

Hello,

Is there any way to downgrade a report created in the report builder of Nav 2013 R2 to an earlier version of Nav 2013?

Regards!

vremeni4

Hi,

If this is a new report (not standard NAV Report) then it is easy.
Export the report from NAV 2013 R3 as a TXT file.
Start NAV 2013 and import the txt file. Compile it, done.

This will only work if it is not a standard NAV report, as you won't be able to import txt version of a standard NAV report.

I hope this helps.

Lec11

That's exactly how I've tried in the first place. But I get report definition differences error, when I'm trying to compile it. I guess it's because of the RDLC version difference!?

mdPartnerNL

Interesting topic. Why not create a very basic report and compare the differences in txt?

Lec11

In fact I had the report in a previous build. I modified it in R2 and wanted to import it in the ealier version.
And yes, I tried to compare the differences in text but it was madness in the layout. I preferred in the end to apply the changes manually in the designer.

teusv

The following method worked for me:

- Export the R2-reports to a txt-file.
- Remove all lines with
<ReportSections>
<ReportSection>
</ReportSection>
</ReportSections>

- Replace

<Report xmlns:rd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner&quot; xmlns:cl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2010/01/componentdefinition&quot; xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2010/01/reportdefinition"&gt;

lines with

<Report xmlns:rd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner&quot; xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2008/01/reportdefinition"&gt;