For AR Standalone upgrade to 1.8 version 

Open ‘Application.yml’ file from “C:\Program Files (x86)\SapphireIMS\AdvancedReports\ReportingFiles\CommonYaml” path from AR installed machine 

If below three values are “Null” after AR is upgraded, please replace with below values (Check for all 7 places in same document)

If values are null as shown in below:

1. arinstallationpath: null
2. sapphireinstallationpath: null
3. sapphirewarname: null

Update with below path/value:

1.  arinstallationpath: C:\Program Files (x86)\SapphireIMS\AdvancedReports\ReportingFiles\ 
2.  sapphireinstallationpath: C:\Program Files (x86)\SapphireIMS\ 
3.  sapphirewarname: SapphireIMS.earSapphireIMS.war