If you have upgraded from an earlier version of Crystal Enterprise, use the Crystal Import Wizard to import existing user accounts, groups, folders, report objects, and report instances to Crystal Enterprise 10.
You can also use the Crystal Import Wizard to import information from an existing version 10 installation to a new version 10 installation. When doing so, you have the additional option of importing calendars, events, repository objects, and server groups. Events and server groups can also be imported from a version 8.5 or 9 installation.
When using the Crystal Import Wizard, if any of an object's dependencies are not imported, the wizard makes appropriate modifications to the object (in most cases, the dependency is removed). For example, if a user has Full Control rights on an object, but the user is not imported, the Full Control right for that user is discarded when the object is imported. In the case of objects brought across without their owners, the Administrator becomes the new owner of the objects.
As another, more involved example, User A owns an object and has Full Control rights while User C has View rights on the same object. If User D runs the Crystal Import Wizard and brings the object across along with User C, but not User A, the object becomes owned by the Administrator: User A loses Full Control rights, but User C still has View rights on the object.
Note: Always import users if you want to bring across the associated rights for an object, even if the user already exists in the destination system. If the user already exists, the Crystal Import Wizard maps all rights for the user on the source system to the existing user on the destination system. If the user is not brought across, all rights information for that user is discarded.
The following sections describe what happens to the objects that are imported from a Crystal Enterprise 8.x system. Generally, if the object will not overwrite an object that is already in the Crystal Enterprise system, then the Crystal Import Wizard imports the object.
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