In CR XI, is there any way to search a folder for report content? A user incorrectly coded a function in our database and saved several reports referring to that function. Now I have created a new function, and I need to find all the reports that refer to the old function so I can change the report to refer to the new function.

I tried opening an .rpt file using Notepad in the hopes that somewhere, buried in all the formatted/compiled data would be plain-text versions of object names. But, alas, I see nothing but compiled gibberish via Notepad, so my hope of using a plain-text search in Windows to find report content has gone the way of many a brilliant idea.

Any ideas would be much appreciated. Otherwise, we just get to wait and fix each affected report as it is discovered when it fails for a user.

Edited by brain - 27 May 2014 at 10:24am

you might try finding a copy of RPT Inspector, it will read the Crystal reports and can tell just about everything that you might want to know.

I remember hearing that they has some issues with Windows 7, and hopefully these have been resolved.