Crystal Reports 2008 Questions


Convert formula result string to number
My formula produces a string. I want to convert it to a number. Can’t use tonumber(@formula).

Answer Question   |  February 15, 2013  7:38 PM
Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports formulas
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5 pts.

Orientation Question
I have a Crystal Reports 2008 report in portrait format that has become too crowded. Is there a way to change the orientation to landscape so I can spread the fields out, without starting from scratch?

Answer Question   |  August 31, 2012  1:20 PM
Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports Formatting
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5 pts.

TCP Ports
Could you let me know which TCP ports are required to be open for Crystal Reports 2008 please? On the client pc it is installed on.

Answer Question   |  May 22, 2012  10:30 AM
Crystal Reports 2008, TCP Ports
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5 pts.

Processing limit was reached
One of our customer Production server has Crystal Reports server 2008 SP1 installed along with Crystal Reports server Embedded 2008.This server has total of 9 RAS services running. There reports are generated and refreshed through a Crystal DOTNET API viewer. The issue with one particular report is when performing Generate/Refresh through the Crystal Viewer, once the [...]

Answer Question   |  May 8, 2012  8:55 AM
Crystal Reports 2008, RAS
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5 pts.

Crystal Report 2008
We recently moved our report portal from Crystal Xi to Crystal 2008. Now the embedded images on the reports only display a text of “Image”. When I send the report to the printer the Image will then display. Does anyone have any idea how to get the image to display on the screen?

Answer Question   |  April 12, 2012  4:35 PM
Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports XI
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5 pts.

Crystal: IF, While-Do loop, or something else…?
Hi, I’m new to Crystal and writing code. I have a simple(?) problem but I am running in circles. We have customers who have ordered in previous financial years and the current year: these are classed as ‘Existing’. Any customer who has not ordered in the previous year (but has an invoice in the current [...]

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2012  7:31 PM
Crystal Reports 2008, SAP analytics and reporting
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5 pts.

Field Expert Crystal Reports 2008
My field expert dialog box would always lock to my design screen (right side) of my report. Now I does not. How do I lock it back again?

Answer Question   |  October 12, 2011  2:08 AM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports Field Explorer
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5 pts.

Crystal Reports 2008 Version 12 Viewer, whats the class name field and what to put there?
In Crystal Reports 2008 version 12.  Im using the viewer to try and pull up the reports I created and designed to view outside of SAP Business 1, but im not sure what to put in the “class name” field. Can anyone help to what I should put there and the function of this field?

Answer Question   |  June 23, 2011  7:01 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports 2008 controls, Crystal Reports Projects, Crystal Reports Viewer, Crystal Reports XI, SAP Business One, SAP Reports
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145 pts.

Crystal Reports error message 1031
trying to log on to crystal and getting error message 1031, is there something missing?  

Answer Question   |  June 1, 2011  1:44 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports error messages, Crystal Reports Errors
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5 pts.

Record Selection in Crystal Report 2008
I have a Crystal report 2008 that selects records from dynamic prompt based on Client field with status “Approved”. When i select records that i know have a staus of “Approved” I see all of the records, but if I select records from dynamic prompt that dont have a status “Approved”  some other status like [...]

Answer Question   |  February 23, 2011  7:32 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports 2008 controls, Record Selection
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50 pts.

Crystal Reports 2008 Error Failed to retrieve data from the database. TABLE space exhausted
won’t display over 300+ pages at one time, get this error message: Failed to retrieve data from the database. Details: HY000:[ODBCLINK Host]

Answer Question   |  December 13, 2010  9:45 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports Database, Crystal Reports error messages, Crystal Reports Errors
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5 pts.

Crytal Reports 2008 printing
We are runing Crystal report v2008, the page number would not be printed on the report but you can see on the screen. we did not have such problem when we were using v9. Please help

Answer Question   |  December 8, 2010  1:22 AM
Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports 9, Crystal Reports printing, Quantum
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5 pts.

Crystal Reports 2008 Error – 0
I am getting this error – Report Engine not Opened. What can I do to fix this?

Answer Question   |  October 29, 2010  2:38 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports error messages, Crystal Reports Errors
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5 pts.

Crystal Reports 2008 filter an array
How can I return records in a data set that have a specific variable, but not another? Ex: Return records when field A includes X but not Y?

Answer Question   |  February 9, 2011  6:05 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports Filter Formula, Crystal Reports Filtering
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5 pts.

Crystal Reports 2008 text export
How can I increase the length of a text record?

Answer Question   |  October 7, 2010  6:24 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports Errors, Subfile Truncation, Text manipulation
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15 pts.

Crystal report viewer
Open REport – No Saved Data This report file does not contain saved data and cannot be viewed. New install of CR 2008 viewing rport over vender database. How do I link data to reports I write?

Answer Question   |  October 7, 2010  2:17 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports Database, Database issues, Link option, Windows XP
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5 pts.

Crystal Reports 2008 in VB6 application
How can I use Crystal Report 2008 R2 in my VB6 application?

Answer Question   |  October 18, 2010  11:28 AM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 2008, LogOffServer, VB 6.0, Visual Basic 6.0, Windows, Windows Server 2008 R2
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10 pts.

Crostab Crystal Report
I have cross tab report in the report footer. I am using Crystal Reports 2008. The report was working fine earlier. But now while the user is trying to refresh the data it is giving an error saying “Not supported”

Answer Question   |  July 26, 2010  7:38 PM
CrossTab Report Error, Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports 2008 controls
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50 pts.

Filtering Crystal Report Groups
In my Crystal Report, I have my results grouped by Process, then by Risk, then by Control. Under each Control, there are several Tests, which can be either Effective or Ineffective. If ALL tests under a specific Risk are Effective, I want to filter out the Risk and its related Controls/Tests. If one or more [...]

Answer Question   |  March 11, 2010  11:10 PM
Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports Filtering, Crystal Reports Group Sorting, filtering
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5 pts.

Crystal Reports On Windows 64 Bit
Unable to run Crystal 2008 in Wondows 7 64 Bit OS

Answer Question   |  March 30, 2011  10:22 AM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 2008, Windows Server
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5 pts.