Found a bug ....

[DimPrawn]

Staggering.

He should have got you to program a subtle date based change which would bring the reports in line over an 18 month period. Directors really would have no chance then...

Sadly the new system allowed reporting on past data, so a like-for-like report could be produced against the old data and compared to archived reports.

There was no way the head of dept was going to admit the reports for the last 5+ years were wrong as he was the one that approved and signed off the old system as fit for purpose.

[NoddY]

Blame IT - last refuge of the rascal.

[Cyberman]

Sadly the new system allowed reporting on past data, so a like-for-like report could be produced against the old data and compared to archived reports.

There was no way the head of dept was going to admit the reports for the last 5+ years were wrong as he was the one that approved and signed off the old system as fit for purpose.

Then based on date selected, if for an archived report prior to the new system, invoke the older code logic. The archived reports will then match up, but for current reports the data will be the new correct version.