Crystal Reports Server XI On-demand Subreport does not open

Hi,
I'm using Crystal Reports XI and have a report with two on-demand subreports. In Crystal Designer, both work fine - that is when I click on either on-demand subreport in preview, it opens in another tab.
But in Crystal Reports Server, one subreport works but the other one just opens another tab with the main report. What could be the problem?
Thanks,
Rob
Edited by: Rob Hershfield on Feb 2, 2010 4:36 AM

I solved it - Both subreports have no name but the one that wasn't working apparently needed a name so I just typed "." (a period) and now it works.
-Rob

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