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Upgrade to 2017, problems with importing reports in text files

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I'm facing a problem during upgrading application 2016 to 2017. All the reports can't imported, because there is an error.

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Environment
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Could not upgrade RDL on Report 50000 Test.
Illegal characters in path.
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OK   
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I make a new report, with only one data item in NAV 2017, no columns, and only the standard RDL layout. I export it, and then i want to import it again. There is also the same error. When i use ProcessingOnly, there is no problem to import the text file.

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    RE: Upgrade to 2017, problems with importing reports in text files

    Yes.. this works.. Thank you. !

  • Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan Profile Picture
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    RE: Upgrade to 2017, problems with importing reports in text files

    Please read the following on SQL Server 2016 SSRS components (Report Builder and Report Viewer) and Dynamics NAV RDLC reports:

    blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/.../sql-server-2016-and-dynamics-nav

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    RE: Upgrade to 2017, problems with importing reports in text files

    Hi bule,

    I had same issue. What SQL server are you using? I was using a SQL server 2014 - NAV 2016. I had installed reportbuilder 2016 and got the same error as you did.

    I uninstalled the reportbuilder 2016 and installed a 2008R Report build and it worked. Here is the link www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

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    RE: Upgrade to 2017, problems with importing reports in text files

    See my comment:

    I make a new report, with only one data item in NAV 2017, no columns, and only the standard RDL layout. I export it, and then i want to import it again. There is also the same error. When i use ProcessingOnly, there is no problem to import the text file.

     

    This is strange, the rdlc section is almost empty. But even when I exporting an existing standard report, and this one I want to import I get the same error. You have it alreadt try this in 2017 too?

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    RE: Upgrade to 2017, problems with importing reports in text files

    Might be useful, if your problem is something similar like this ; community.dynamics.com/.../167321

    It seems like problem with your RDLData, so take a single report and try to remove controls one by one then try to reimport the object txt file. In this way you can find where the actual error happens.

  • Community Member Profile Picture
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    RE: Upgrade to 2017, problems with importing reports in text files

    yes.. i know.. But I'm upgrading a database from 2015 to 2017, and there are maybe 50 reports.

  • Community Member Profile Picture
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    RE: Upgrade to 2017, problems with importing reports in text files

    yes.. i know.. But i'm upgrading a database from 2015 to 2017, and there are maybee 50 reports.

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    IshwarSharma Profile Picture
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    RE: Upgrade to 2017, problems with importing reports in text files

    Please try this, it might help. Remove the RDL Data from the text file you are importing into NAV. To do so, find 'RDLData' in the object's text file. Remove all the content which exists in between the curly parenthesis {} which start after the RDLData.

    Try importing the file. It has helped me once in resolving this error.

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