Crystal Reports Questions


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 XI period in database name
SQL Server 2005 database has a period in its name. For example, data.12. I call a crystal report from VS2008. I use ConnectionInfo object to pass connection info to a report. I get errors in formulas. Renaming DB resolves the issue. How can I get it to work with names like data.12?

Answer Question   |  January 13, 2012  12:12 AM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports XI, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 Database
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35 pts.

Filtering Dates in Crystal Reports
Is there a way to get Crystal to filter dates showing the next 5 or 7 days?  I know about filtering using “in the period” but none of those options are for future dates, except like next 30 or 60 days, but I don’t want to see all of that.

Answer Question   |  March 11, 2011  9:10 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports Filter Formula, Crystal Reports Filtering
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5 pts.

Crystal report asks for parameter at runtime
Hello All, I have a problem with crystal reports at runtime…… I have a desktop application in which I have used crystal report… When I run the application, crystal report asks for parameter even though I have supplied it through code in C#. Not able to figure out why this happens….. My Report also contains [...]

Answer Question   |  August 12, 2011  10:22 AM
.NET, C#, Crystal Report, Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports Conditional Parameters, SQL Server 2005
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25 pts.

Crystal Report error
What does this error in crystal report mean “This fieldname is not  known”

Answer Question   |  January 6, 2011  4:40 AM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports error messages, Crystal Reports Errors, Visual Studio 2010
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5 pts.

How to execute Crystal Reports subreports on priority base
Hi I’d created two sub reports(x,y) which uses different queries. In main report i have to call ‘x’ report first because i have to pass the grand tot from ‘x’ report to ‘y’.  How ever my two reports are calling at a time so that ‘y’ report getting wrong result because it is calling before [...]

Answer Question   |  December 28, 2010  5:07 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports Subreports, Crystal XI, Oracle
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10 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.

Crystal Reports 8.5 and Oracle 9i
Hi Brothers and lovers,          I’ve tried in designing the crystal report.while designing,i used multiple columns to view the records.Here i’ve a problem in designing.the problem is , i selected the down the across in the layout of details section in the crystal report 8.5.Through this i can’t control the record to next column before [...]

Answer Question   |  December 11, 2010  3:59 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 8.5, Oracle 9i
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5 pts.

Sort Crystal Reports detail data once to process then again to display
I have a report in which I have to sort the details in a specific way in order to calculate summaries but for display purposes I want to sort in a different order. Is this possible in Crystal XI

Answer Question   |  December 6, 2010  2:59 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports Conditional Formatting, Crystal Reports XI
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5 pts.

Does Crystal Reports 10 have ActiveX capabilities?
does crystal reports software version 10 have activex capabilities?

Answer Question   |  November 29, 2010  2:11 PM
ActiveX, Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 10
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5 pts.

Unhandled win32 exception occurred in crw32.exe
When running the Standard Report Wizard, I get “An unhandled win32 exception occurred in crw32.exe[1904]“. The bracketed number may change, but the error continues and terminates the program. I do not have DEP turned on. I do have third party software (Echo Database) that uses Crystal Reports. Once I got the report open and the [...]

Answer Question   |  November 24, 2010  10:54 PM
Crystal Reports, DEP, Win32, Windows XP, Windows XP Error Messages
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35 pts.

Crystal report 9 formula issue
I have a crystal report using two Lawson OLEDB queries, with employee.employee and supervisor.employee. Please let me know how can I write a formula which shows the employee which is listed in the report is a supervisor or not. The report does not shows the supervisor.employee field.

Answer Question   |  November 17, 2010  2:21 PM
Crystal formula, Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 9, Crystal Reports formulas, OraOLEDB
15 pts.

Why aren’t the Crystal Reports indexes showing since loading V6R1?
I use Crystal reports via ODBC to the iSeries and have for years.  After loading V6R1 when I go in to create a report, the files aren’t showing any indexes like they used to.  The used to show indexes based on the file definitions but now there are no indexes showing. I have even pointed [...]

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2010  6:45 PM
Crystal Reports, iSeries, ODBC, OS/400, V6R1
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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.

Enable close button in Crystal Reports 9
when pulling up the a report where you can select your parameters the close button is disabled, how do I enable the close button in case I chose wrong report

Answer Question   |  October 28, 2010  4:57 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 9, Crystal Reports Buttons
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5 pts.

Crystal Reports header/footer formatting
I was able to create a group header to print memo then statement page following memo for each employee but now am having trouble with the header and footer appearing on the memo. I only want the header and footer to appear on the statement not my memo. How can I fix this?

Answer Question   |  April 13, 2011  6:17 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 8.5, Crystal Reports Conditional Formatting, Crystal Reports printing
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10 pts.

New Page Insert to an existing report in Crystal Reports 8.5
I am trying to insert a new page to an existing report, I want two pages to print per person and am having trouble with this. Please help.

Answer Question   |  August 12, 2011  5:45 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 8.5, Crystal Reports printing, PeopleSoft
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10 pts.

Crystal Reports 8.5 to Crystal 11.5.0.313
Can you convert Crystal 8.5 reports to version 11.5.0.313?

Answer Question   |  October 26, 2010  3:17 PM
Crystal 8.5, Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports 11.5, Crystal Reports 8.5
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10 pts.

Getting prompted for userid/password when viewing Crystal Reports
Connections are ODBC Oracle. You can see a pic of what I am talking about here: This happens for every report on the server. Everyone uses the same login and password so I wish there was a way this wouldn’t bug the user.s

Answer Question   |  October 14, 2010  6:13 PM
Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports User Settings, ODBC, Oracle Crystal Reports, Oracle Reports
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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.