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Thursday, August 13, 2009

My horse does not run on petrol - is this a bug?

Yesterday I decided to refuel my horse carriage, and thus brought it to the petrol station. Shortly after filling up the horse with gasoline, the stupid thing died? Is this a bug?



In case you think: WTF?!: Every other day, we receive a posting in the forum that follows a similar pattern. Users download the Citrus-PRD, create reports with it, and then publish the report to an old (=not a Citrus-) BI-Server installation. And then they act surprised if that horse dies and if the report does not work.



So if you came to this site because I posted a link to here in the answer in the forum, then please remember:



BI-Server 3.0 was released in March 2009.



Citrus is scheduled to be released in September 2009.



March - September. Do you notice the six month gap?



If we would have a reporting engine that was able to do what Citrus-PRD can do, dont you think we would have included that in the march release? And the other way around: Back then in March, how would we know what the final Citrus release would look like, as it wasn't even written yet. As long as the Church of Einstein is in power, time travel will remain forbidden, and thus we have to point out that:



The client-tools you use for developing content for the BI-Server must be the same version or older than the BI-Server version you use. Anything else violates the Einstein-rules and may bring you in deep trouble.