Question

Crystal Report Windows Forms Viewer Error

Asked by: naveenkohli

Here is the error I get:

Crystal Report Windows Forms Viewer
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The remaining text does not appear to be part of the formula.
Error in File C:\DOCUME~1\viper\LOCALS~1\Temp\temp_0dad0fc6-fc29-44e6-abad-fcdcf5f1c54c {18DCC239-9A15-40A6-A68C-4511E6198963}.rpt:
Error in formula  <Record_Selection>.
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The remaining text does not appear to be part of the formula.
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Using CR shipped with VS2005  on Windows XP SP3

The report has no formula. It has simple header text, footer text and some body text. Just informational page. This has been working for more than a year now. All of a sudden few users have reported this error and now we can reproduce on development workstations as well.

Any help or suggestions will be appreciated. Will be adding more points for answer.

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2009-06-08 at 09:07:13ID24472684
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Crystal Reports Software

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Answers

 

by: James0628Posted on 2009-06-08 at 19:53:45ID: 24577924

Can you go into the report and see what, if anything, it says in the record selection?

 Does the report have any subreports?  If so, they will have their own record selection and the error could be coming from one of them.

 James

 

by: naveenkohliPosted on 2009-06-09 at 09:24:13ID: 24582737

Like I mentioned in the question .. there is nothing in the report. Its an empty report whatever VS wizard creates when u add a new report to project.

 

by: mlmccPosted on 2009-06-09 at 14:24:10ID: 24585967

It seems to think there is something in the record selection.  Verify there is nothing there even if it is simply a blank character.

Is there a database added to the report?

mlmcc

 

by: James0628Posted on 2009-06-09 at 20:00:16ID: 24587708

You didn't specifically mention the record selection, and since the error referred to "Record_Selection", it seemed like the obvious place to start.

 Can you post a copy of the report so that we can take a look at it?  If you're going to do that, you'll need to change the file extension from RPT to something else, like TXT (EE only accepts certain file types and RPT is not one of them).  You could also add a note to the file letting people know that the extension needs to be changed back to RPT.

 James

 

by: naveenkohliPosted on 2009-06-11 at 14:43:38ID: 24607179

As I mentioned there is no record, database or anything. Just an empty report that is generated by Visual Studio whrn you insert a report into the project. Nothing else...

Anyways ... I have solved the problem now. The issue was caused by one of XP SP. It rebased crytal's dlls. That caused unexpected code excution path inside crystal COM objects that generate reports.

 

by: James0628Posted on 2009-06-11 at 16:46:04ID: 24608001

Interesting.  Thanks for letting us know.  How did you fix it?  Reinstall VS 2005 or something?  Just wondering, in case someone else has the same problem.

 James

 

by: ee_autoPosted on 2009-10-17 at 01:24:00ID: 25595237

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