This is a unique situation where we down grade a report from 8.4 to 8.3. Strange isn’t. There are some users who just don’t want to update themselves. On one side we are with the COGNOS 10 beta customers and on the other side we have these handfuls of Clients who are on 8.3 but want all the new reports that were built with 8.4. We have manually downgrading these set of new reports and give them out through a package separately created on a 8.3 environment.
Anyways, here is a simple example with screen shots on how to do it.
- Open the report in a report studio (8.4)
- Go to tools and copy to clip board
- Open a notepad and paste
- On 8.4 reports we will see something similar to what is shown in the first screen shot.
- Delete everything after the language specification up to the ‘layouts’
Your report XML should be something like screen shot 1 initially and end like screen shot 2, now copy the data from the notepad and open it in 8.3 report studio.
Your report should working on 8.3 environments now J
