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Crystal Reports 11 print from preview has different information

When I generate a report preview in Crystal Reports 11, it displays all the proper information. When I click print from the preview, it regenerates the information and grabs a different date range. So the printed document is different from the information on screen. If I just straight print its fine.
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Mike McCracken

Is there a parameter that controls the date range?

mlmcc

dbakker

ASKER

No, I am not using parameters in the report. Straight fields from the database. The straight print comes up correctly, the preview comes up correctly on screen. However when I click the print from the preview screen , that is when it changes

Mike McCracken

Is the report saved with data?

Try this
Open the report
Click REFRESH
Let the report refresh
Click PRINT

Does it still change the date range?

mlmcc

dbakker

ASKER

Yes it still changes the date range after i hit the refresh and then print

Mike McCracken

I can't think of any reason it would do that.

Can you upload the report file?

mlmcc

dbakker

ASKER

Here is the report file
Lot-Harvest-PGL.rpt

Mike McCracken

I see your start and end date are just fields from a table. How is the data put into that table.

mlmcc

dbakker

ASKER

The date entered from a report menu

Mike McCracken

What report menu?

I thought you were running this from the Crystal designer?

If this is actually from code then any chance the code is changing that table during preview?

mlmcc

dbakker

ASKER

I sent this to the programmers and the reply i got back is

There’s no logic that changes anything in the report based on preview or print though. The dates simply get pulled from the form and set in the report’s dataset.

Is there a setting somewhere in the crystal report that is doing this?

Mike McCracken

Are the reports run from the database or is a dataset passed to them?

Does the date range have default values?

mlmcc

dbakker

ASKER

The reports are designed with crystal and attached to the program. The default date is todays date for start and finished

James0628

FWIW, the date range seems kind of meaningless, in that the report is not using it to select the data. I don't see any record selection formula at all, so the report is just including everything that's in the tables. So it seems that the data (dataset) is changing. How/Why the dataset is changing, I have no idea.

James

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dbakker

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Thanks, this wasn't quite the issue , but it was very close enough to help us find it, so I will accept as solution. The print from preview was calling information a second time and the code our programmer was using had an error in it so it pulled the date plus one day.