You can import a Crystal Reports report, a Microsoft Access report, an Excel file, or an ActiveReports section report in ActiveReports by running the ActiveReports Import Wizard.

To learn about importing Excel files, please see Importing Excel.

To learn about importing ActiveReports section reports, please see Importing RPX.

Importing Crystal reports/MS Access Reports in the ActiveReports Import Wizard

The import wizard converts reports to the closest possible ActiveReports format, but due to differences between products and versions, the extent to which your reports are converted depends on your specific report layout. You may have to partially redesign the report and add script or code to get the same output as Microsoft Access Reports or Crystal Reports.

When converting to Page Reports or RDL Reports, whether a report is imported as a Page Report or RDL Report, depends on the following factors:

• If a report has a single detail section it is imported as a Page Report.
• If a report has a CrossTab control and its layout is composed of multiple sections it is imported as an RDL Report.

Please refer to the additional information below, to understand the conversion process in detail.

Importing Crystal Reports

To import Crystal Reports in ActiveReports, you need to install Visual Studio and Crystal Reports for Visual Studio on your machine. The supported versions of Visual Studio and corresponding Crystal Reports are as follows:

Visual Studio	Editions	Crystal Reports	Assembly Version
2008	Professional, Team System	Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2008	10.5.3700.0
2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019	...	SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio	13.x.x.x

Crystal Report controls are converted in ActiveReports as follows:

Crystal Report	Section Report	Page Report/RDL Report	Note
Box	Shape	Container	The LineWidth property and rounded boxes are not imported. If the Box control extends to multiple sections, the box is imported as line controls.
CrossTab	SubReport	BandedList	CrossTab control is not imported as it is.
Line	Line	Line	The size of Dot and Dash (the LineStyle property) is not the same as the original report.
Subreport	SubReport	Subreport	Set the subreport in code after conversion.
TextObject	Label	Textbox	Only page number, total page, page n of m in Special Fields are imported.
FieldObject	TextBox	Textbox	Only page number, total page, page n of m in Special Fields are imported.
Picture	...	Container	Picture object is not converted.

Importing Microsoft Access Reports

To import Microsoft® Access® reports in ActiveReports, you must have Access 97, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010, or 2013 installed on your system.

Microsoft Access report controls are converted in ActiveReports as follows:

Microsoft Access Report	Section Report	Page Report/RDL Report	Note
Rectangle	Shape	Container	Controls placed inside the Rectangle control are also imported along with the parent control.
CheckBox	Label	Textbox	...
Image	...	Image	Image control is not converted while converting to a Section Report.
Label	Label	Textbox	...
Textbox	TextBox	Textbox	...
Line	Line	Line	...
Page Break	PageBreak	Container	In Page Reports and RDL Reports, the PageBreakAtEnd property is automatically set to True on importing a Page Break control.
Subform/Subreport	SubReport	Subreport	...

Limitations in Crystal Report/MS Access conversion

• Any controls, functions, and text formats which are not supported by ActiveReports are not imported.
• The shadow property of a control is not imported while converting a report.
• The OLE object is not imported in ActiveReports as it is treated as PictureObject in the object structure of Crystal Reports.
• In Microsoft Access reports, VBA code appears in as commented statements in script. You have to modify the code after importing.