Crystal Reports Replacement?

Im in the market to find what other companies are replacing
Crystal Reports with. Im interested in some sort of PDF solution -
but I want to know what other companies are using instead of
Crysytal.
Either a WYSIWYG editor for building reports and binding them
to datasources - or
programaticly generate the report - like a html page and
producing PDF or something as an output.
My development environment:
Windows xp - VB.NET - SQL 2000

I'm having issue when I try to load a report from the file system, using RAS SDK.
I'm trying this in Windows Application VS 2008 C#.NET, Windows 7 Enterprise Edition 64- bit envioronment.
string mySampleReportPath = "rassdk://C:
Program Files (x86)
Business Objects
Crystal Reports 11.5
Samples
en
Reports
General Business
World Sales Report.rpt";
object path = (object)mySampleReportPath;
ReportClientDocumentClass bRptClientDoc = new ReportClientDocumentClass();
bRptClientDoc.ReportAppServer = "localhost";
bRptClientDoc.Open(ref path, 1);
I get an exception at the above line
Failed to connect to server \"hd254\".\nError returned from Windows Sockets API : 0.
Source - clientdoc.dl
Please let me know what could be the issue ?
Thanks.

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Post Author: nl11087
CA Forum: JAVA
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at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.a.c.a(Unknown Source)
at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.b.b.int(Unknown Source)
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at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.x.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.q.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.dd.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.sdk.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
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at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.objectformatter.bv.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.objectformatter.bv.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.e.l.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.e.p.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.e.p.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.a.c.a(Unknown Source)
... 17 more
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at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.else(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.nr(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.bn(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.bp(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.else(Unknown Source)
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at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.aa(Unknown Source)
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at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.<init>(Unknown Source)
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at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ap.ea(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ap.h(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ap.dV(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ax.if(Unknown Source)
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at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.dd.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
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at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
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Post Author: nl11087
CA Forum: JAVA
A single quote/apostrophe in string parameter passed to a Crystal Report with Command datasource connecting to a SQL Server database, using sqljdbc driver does not escape the special character correctly. When doing a preview in the Crystal Reports IDE it allows you to escape the input parameter as expected and work correctly, but through the JRC component it fails. For string parameters without special sql server characters I experience no problems at all. When replacing the Command with a direct table there is also no problem.
Reproduction:
1. create a database db1, create a table table1 with a String type column col1.
2. Create new report Report1.rpt, create a connection to above, Add Command using 'SELECT col1, col2, col3 FROM table1 WHERE col1 = '{?Par1}' . Add a parameter field Par1 : String
3. In your java stand alone application using JRC add the parameter Par1 with a value "Jon Doe's Value" containing a single apostrophe. Export to PDF. (I also tried MSWord and this failed too, similar behavior). Additionally, in another test try to replaceAll("'","''") to escape it, preventing the code to break, but now it does not retrieve the expected row anymore and you end up with an empty report.
Exception StackTrace:
com.crystaldecisions.reports.exportinterface.exceptions.ExportException: JDBC Error: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.a.c.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.a.c.a(Unknown Source)
at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.b.b.int(Unknown Source)
at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.JRCCommunicationAdapter.request(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.x.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.q.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.dd.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.sdk.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
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at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.objectformatter.bv.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.objectformatter.bv.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.e.l.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.e.p.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.e.p.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.a.c.a(Unknown Source)
... 17 more
Caused by: com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.be: JDBC Error: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.else(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.nr(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.bn(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.bp(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.n.else(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.s.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.aa(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.bk.a(Unknown Source)
... 23 more
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at com.crystaldecisions.reports.reportdefinition.datainterface.p.a(Unknown Source)
... 35 more
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at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.driverImpl.o.eC(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.driverImpl.o.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ap.ea(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ap.h(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ap.dV(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ax.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.bc.if(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.bc.do(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.bc.do(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ae.cy(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ae.cz(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.b1.bc(Unknown Source)
... 36 more
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at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.IOBuffer.processPackets(Unknown Source)
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at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.doExecuteStatement(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement$StatementExecutionRequest.executeStatement(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.CancelableRequest.execute(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.executeRequest(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.execute(Unknown Source)
... 48 more
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at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.JRCCommunicationAdapter.request(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.x.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.q.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.dd.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)
at com.crystaldecisions.reports.sdk.PrintOutputController.export(Unknown Source)

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Post Author: mgold
CA Forum: Crystal Reports
Access DB (& .ldb file) does not close after crystal reports
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- It works fine running the application from a Windows Vista PC with a user who is a domain admin.
- The access db and application hang for about 10-20 minutes and then eventually closes. It appears that somehow
Crystal Reports is keeping the db open, but I'm not sure why.The application doesn't quit and the database doesn't close even if I try to end the task with the Task Manager.
- The Crystl32.ocx version being used is 8.0.0.4 (if that matters).
- I copied 6 month old program files and database files to a test folder on the Windows 2003 server. It fails using these files that worked fine 6 months ago.
Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated! If you know of another good place to post this, please let me know.
Thanks!
- Mark

Crystal doesn't support tables in HTML interpretation.
You can probably work your way around this by doing Replace() calls on the relevant tags.
See:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes_boj/sdn_oss_boj_erq/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/scn_bosap/notes%7B6163636573733d36393736354636443646363436353344333933393338323636393736354637333631373036453646373436353733354636453735364436323635373233443330333033303331333233313337333033383334%7D.do
The supported HTML tags are:
" html
" body
" div (causes a paragraph break)
" tr (causes only a paragraph break; does not
preserve column structure of a table)
" span
" font
" p (causes a paragraph break)
" br (causes a paragraph break)
" h1 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold
& twice default size)
" h2 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold
& 1.5 times default size)
" h3 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold
& 9/8 default size)
" h4 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold)
" h5 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold
& 5/6 default size)
" h6 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold
& 5/8 default size)
" center
" big (increases font size by 2 points)
" small (decreases font size by 2 points if it's 8
points or larger)
" b
" i
" s
" strike
" u
The supported HTML attributes are:
" align
" face
" size
" color
" style
" font-family
" font-size
" font-style
" font-weight

Crystal report 10 export to MAPI does not work in Windows 7

hi:
I am using CR10 10.0.5.1025 in Windows 7. I tried to export a report to MAPI and got error:
Error 2147500037 returned by function <MAPIResolveName>
This error occurs both Office 2007 and 2003
Any one see this error before?

SOLUTION
Hi, (excuse my bad english)
The client have and use Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate version .
He use Crystal Report XI R2 Sp6
PROBLEM: He has a MAPI error Error when exporting PDF to MAPI.
 He Receiving the following error message when trying to export PDF Crystal Report to MAPI.
 Error 2147500037 returned by function <MAPIResolveName>
 Email Client: MS Outlook 2007
SOLUTION: Were I found on the internet.
Auhtor is: Andrew Whittam
Web Link: http://www.2icsoftware.com/Support/Forum/tabid/110/aff/2/aft/1105/afv/topic/Default.aspx
Microsoft decided to no longer support the 'Simple MAPI' email system in Windows 7. Although countless applications use it to manage emails, including 2ic Pallets, a replacement system has not been provided.
So Windows 7 users have two options:
Manually create email messages by copying and pasting information from the '2icEmail.txt' file that is created whenever there is an emailing error, i.e. every time you try emailing with Windows 7.
Downgrade the ' C:\Windows\System32\Mapi32.dll ' file to an earlier version, i.e. replace Mapi32.dll with the same file from a Windows Vista or XP computer.
Downgrading seems to work ok. Mapi32.dll on Windows 7 has version number 1.0.2536.0, which is the same as Mapi32.dll on Windows Vista and XP. However, downgrade AT YOUR OWN RISK and check with your system administrator before making any changes.
It is strongly recommended to rename the existing Mapi32.dll file rather than delete it so it can be restored if you find other programs do not work after downgrading. To downgrade, follow the steps below:
Open Windows Explorer, navigate to ' C:\Windows\System32 ' (or ' C:\Windows\SysWOW64 ' for 64 bit operating systems), find Mapi32.dll and rename it to Mapi32.dll.OLD or Mapi32.dll.2ic. If you receive the message "You require permission from TrustedInstaller to make changes to this file." or some other permissions-related error, change the Owner of the file and permissions before trying again, i.e. right-click on Mapi32.dll, select Properties, Security tab, click Advanced, Owner tab, click Edit..., select "Administrators", OK the dialog boxes, again right-click on Mapi32.dll, select Properties, Security tab, click Edit, select "Administrators", allow Full Control and OK the dialog boxes. For more detail, good instructions can be found at http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/w...dinstaller.
Run the 'Email patch' from the Downloads - Utilities page of this website. This patch installs and registers the files below.
C:\Windows\System32\Mapi32.dll
C:\Windows\System32\MSmapi32.ocx
Note they are only installed when missing or replacing an older version. For 64 bit operating systems these files are updated in the 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64' folder. Alternatively these files can be manually copied from a different computer and registered using Regsvr32.
The email functionality can be checked using the 'Export/email test spreadsheet', also available on the Downloads - Utilities page. Using this spreadsheet to generate an email on Windows 7 before downgrading should result in an error message. Emailing should work after running the patch.
RESULT: I fixed the problem customer PC. TEST and Verification are fonctionnal.
Steve
Edited by: sstmartin on Mar 18, 2011 9:11 PM

After installing SP3 for BO XI R1 - Crystal Reports taking forever to run.

Hello,
We are running BO XI R1 SP3. Ever since installing SP3 a number of our scheduled Crystal Reports are taking forever to run. The Business Objects server resources are okay, CPU never really gets above 50% so I figure perhaps it's our SQL Server.
We run SQL 2005 and CPU on that hovers around 30%, we've got 4 2.6GHz CPUs with 16GB of RAM. Looking in SQL Server activity monitor the reason the reports are taking some time is that the wait types are generally CXPACKET.
For example a report used to process in a minute however after installing SP3 the report now takes several hours. Since we've 4 CPU's on our SQL Server activity monitor creates four sessions for the report to try and process it in parallel. However all of those four sessions have a wait type of CXPACKET. This I understand is related to parallelism and people have said to reduce that so nothing runs in parallel.
However I should not have to do that as things used to run just fine, there is no physical reason (i.e. RAM / CPU / HDD) that reports are locked waiting in SQL server. Has anyone else had this issue or have any suggestions on how to fix please?
Kind regards,
Chris Rutherford

XIR2 has two different redistributable MSI packages. One is compatable with 1.1 framwork applications and the other is compatable with 2.0 framework applications.
try downloading the SP3 MSIs from [here|https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100009656792008E/crxir2sp3_net_si.zip]
this will have both MSIs
- CrystalReports11_5_NET.msi (for 1.1fwk applications)
- CrystalReports11_5_net_2005.msi (for 2.0fwk applications)
rename the CrystalReports11_5_net_2005.msi to CrystalRedist115_x86.msi and replace the existing file in the Bootstrapper folder path
Uninstall the last install, rebuild and try your Click-Once install again. This time you should have the 11.5.3700.0 runtime.
Dan

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