Discovere or Crystal Reports

We have lots of Crystal Reports but the business find it diificult to understand the complexities of the database. So Is Discoverer better ?
My question should have been in a Crystal Reports forum but I thought of just asking this here also to all the Discoverer Gurus.
Which tool is better Crystal Reports or Discoverer in hiding the database structure from the end-user.
Please advise.
Thanks

Hi
By asking a question in the Discoverer forum you must expect us to give a somewhat biaised view.
In my opinion, Discoverer is the better tool but then would you really expect me to say anything different? However, from the bottom of my heart I really believe this. I have dedicate the last 10 years of my life to helping my clients maximize their investment in Discoverer.
With regards to hiding the complexity of the underlying database then absoluteley Discoverer is the best tool for that because it has what is called an End User Layer, otherwise known as EUL. This EUL allows you to control what the users see and, if set up correctly, does not require the user to know very much at all about the underlying database.
In the EUL, you mask or hide database objects from being visible to users, you set up pre-defined joins between objects this avoiding users having to know how to join objects together, you can combine data from different objects into simpler objects for users to work with, you can name items the way the business likes them to be named and much more.
Does this help?
Best wishes
Michael

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We need a Crystal Report formula to display the number of seconds the oldest arriving call has been waiting. Across multiple resources that can each have an "oldest call". The database stores a datetime value for the time the oldest call arrived. If there are no waiting calls, then this field is NULL. (MSSQL database). It seemed reasonable to implement this in a formula that 1) discovers the minimum of "oldest call" timestamps in the selected records, and 2) to use "datediff" to produce the difference (in seconds) between the "oldest call" timestamp and current time.
The first attempt at this relied on "implied" iteration that could be done within a formula. Something like:
data: OLDESTARRIVALTIME
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       '2014-06-14 08:08:08.000'
       null
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       null
whilereadingrecords;
datetimevar minArrival;
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This was to solve the problem of screening null values and producing the minimum of the set.
Since that didn't work (and the web articles seemed to imply this would iterate over all the records, we tried another approach. This
time we set NULL timestamps in the table to a timestamp far in the future, so that we could directly apply "minimum" to produce
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data: OLDESTARRIVALTIME
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          '2030-01-01 00:00:00.000'
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else
     0
(minUTC would be current time in UTC)
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That's inconceivable, considering the test for minArrival < minUTC. Both of the fields are "datetime".
As it turns out, in the near term, it's most important to get the second formula working. And, of course, insights into getting the first
formula to work are welcome as well!
Have we run into some weird behavior of the "DateDiff" function?
Thanks!

If DateDiff is always returning a negative number you could try swapping the dates around in the call to DateDiff - it should look like this:
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Or you could use the Absolute Value of the calculation:
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As for your first formula, you need to initialize the variable to a value prior to using it in the comparison. If you don't, its value is null and comparing it against a value won't work. (See What is Null and Why is it Important for Crystal Reports | SAP BI BLOG for a blog that I wrote about working with nulls in Crystal.)
You should change your existing formula to something like this:
whilereadingrecords;
datetimevar minArrival;
if OnFirstRecord then minArrival := DateTime(2013, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0);
if not isNull({SVCCLASSMEASURES_VW.OLDESTARRIVALTIME})
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Now, create a second formula that looks like this:
whileReadingRecords;
datetimevar minArrival;
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-Dell

"Invalid export DLL or export format" with Crystal Reports 2008

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Issue
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Our company has also been experiencing this issue with deployed versions of our software, and during my examination of the error I have made the following discoveries:
For us the error has only been reproduced on Windows 2003 running Citrix
The error does not occur on Windows XP, Windows 2003 or Vista without Citrix
For installation of our application we use the CRRuntime_12_0.msm merge module (version 12.0.0.683, file size 46790KB)
As mentioned in the first post this error is related to the files crxf_rtf.dll and cfxf_xls.dll being unable to locate its reference to the file libpng10.dll during load.
I have run the application with ProcMon (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx) attached on both environments that work correctly and that does not work and iIve made these observations:
During load of dlls Windows searches for references in the following orders (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682586.aspx):
1. The directory from which the application loaded.
2. The system directory.
3. The 16-bit system directory.
4. The Windows directory.
5. The current directory.
6. The directories that are listed in the PATH environment variable.
Looking at the ProcMon log for the environment where it works correctly (Windows XP, no Citrix) it looks like this . Numbers represent the search order mentioned above:
Load Image     C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 12.0\win32_x86\crxf_rtf.dll     SUCCESS     Image Base: 0x3e640000, Image Size: 0x79000
(1) QueryOpen     C:\Program Files\<our application name>\libpng10.dll     NAME NOT FOUND
(2) QueryOpen     C:\WINDOWS\system32\libpng10.dll     NAME NOT FOUND
(3) QueryOpen     C:\WINDOWS\system\libpng10.dll     NAME NOT FOUND
(4) QueryOpen     C:\WINDOWS\libpng10.dll     NAME NOT FOUND
(5) QueryOpen     C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 12.0\win32_x86\libpng10.dll     SUCCESS      ...
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(1) QueryOpen     X:\Program Files\<our application name>\libpng10.dll     NAME NOT FOUND
(2) QueryOpen     X:\WINDOWS\system32\libpng10.dll     NAME NOT FOUND
(3) QueryOpen     X:\WINDOWS\system\libpng10.dll     NAME NOT FOUND
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If image file not exist in image path crystal report not open and give me exception error problem

Hi guys my code below show pictures for all employees
code is working but i have proplem
if image not exist in path
crystal report not open and give me exception error image file not exist in path
although the employee no found in database but if image not exist in path when loop crystal report will not open
how to ignore image files not exist in path and open report this is actually what i need
my code below as following
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con.Open();
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cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter();
da.SelectCommand = cmd;
da.Fill(dt);
foreach (DataRow dr in dt.Rows)
FileStream fs = null;
fs = new FileStream("\\\\192.168.1.105\\Personal Pictures\\" + dr[0] + ".jpg", FileMode.Open);
BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(fs);
byte[] imgbyte = new byte[fs.Length + 1];
imgbyte = br.ReadBytes(Convert.ToInt32((fs.Length)));
dr["Image"] = imgbyte;
fs.Dispose();
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objRpt.SetDataSource(dt);
crystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = objRpt;
crystalReportViewer1.Refresh();
and exception error as below

First: I created a New Column ("Image") in a datatable of the dataset and change the DataType to System.Byte()
Second : Drag And drop this image Filed Where I want.
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CryRe_DailyBatch report = new CryRe_DailyBatch();
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DataTable dt = GetImageRow(table, "Footer.Jpg");
report.SetDataSource(dt);
crv1.ReportSource = report;
crv1.Refresh();
By this Function I merge My Image data into dataTable
private DataTable GetImageRow(DataTable dt, string ImageName)
try
FileStream fs;
BinaryReader br;
if (File.Exists(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + ImageName))
fs = new FileStream(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + ImageName, FileMode.Open);
else
// if photo does not exist show the nophoto.jpg file
fs = new FileStream(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + ImageName, FileMode.Open);
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byte[] imgbyte = new byte[fs.Length + 1];
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dt.Rows[0]["Image"] = imgbyte;
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Sales quote layout rows doubled in crystal report layout

Dear All,
Sales quote layout rows doubled in crystal report layout.
In sales quote layout the rows are doubled. Even in the standard layout. If the quote contains only two rows. Then it is doubled as 4 rows in the crystal report layout.
It is happening in the particular database. Other database are working fine. I request you people to help me to overcome this issue.
Regards,
Siva

Hi Siva,
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Hi Experts,
I created a Sale Order. Items included in it are service and material.
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I need the report on it please let me know how i can do it.
I tried with below query
select a.DocEntry, a.DocNum, a.CardCode, a.CardName, b.DocEntry,b.ItemCode, b.Dscription, b.Quantity, b.Price, b.LineTotal, a.DocTotal, a.VatSum
from ORDR a inner join RDR1 b on a.DocEntry = b.DocEntry
--and b.TreeType <> 'N'
where a.docnum = '14240621'
output of above query is
DocEntry
DocNum
CardCode
CardName
DocEntry
ItemCode
Description
Qty
Unit Price
Line Total
DocTotal
Tax Amount
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
302010001
PROVIDING & LAYING
17.62
2493.76
43940.05
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
MT0001
Material for PROVIDING & LAYING
17.62
2800
49336
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
305010005
BM CM INCLUDING CEMENT
10.055
1980
19908.9
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
MT0002
Material for BM CM INCLUDING CEMENT
10.055
1650
16590.75
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
302040001
P/APPLYING
65
116.5
7572.5
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
MT0003
Material for P/APPLYING
65
65
4225
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
301000001
P& FIXING
2.233
31625.05
70618.74
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
MT0004
Material for P& FIXING
2.233
44000
98252
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
306010001
PROVIDING RMC
3
3593
10779
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
MT0005
Material for PROVIDING RMC
3
4847
14541
354652
18888.46
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Unit price of both child item and parent item should be display in single column. ie. cumulative in Unit Price Column and Linetotal respectively.
DocEntry
DocNum
CardCode
CardName
DocEntry
ItemCode
Description
Qty
Unit Price
Line Total
DocTotal
Tax Amount
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
302010001
PROVIDING & LAYING
17.62
5293.76
93276.05
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
305010005
BM CM INCLUDING CEMENT
10.055
3630
36499.65
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
302040001
P/APPLYING
65
181.5
11797.5
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
301000001
P& FIXING
2.233
75625.05
168870.7
354652
18888.46
621
14240621
CDR0001
ABCDEFGH
621
306010001
PROVIDING RMC
3
8440
25320
354652
18888.46
please let me know the update on this.
with regards

Hi Nagarajan,
thanks for reply..
1) Yes, i.e i have taken into BomType: Template
2) i did not get any helpful output by using treetype by keeping 'S' and 'N', i kept in comment.
3) Actually MT0001-05 - these are material item- unit prices are fixed. see in attached image
     for parent item, unit prices are not fixed. I give the price for them in Sale Order.
     I want unit price for parent and child should be summed/cumulative for Sale Order print.
     (in my above post, first matrix exactly same as sale order line items plz check it)
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With Regards

SQL Connections remain open after Crystal Report closes

I am wirting an interface to use the crystal report viewer to print reports, connecting to a Progress Open Edge 10.1B database. From our application we declare the application, report, exportoptions and connectionproperties objects and pass these to the crystal reports viewer. Once the report is printed we release the objects and set their variables for null. However we are finding that the SQL connection to the database is remaining connected and we can only release the connection by manually going in a disconnecting.
I have read in forums that people use .dispose or .close to release the connection, however we do not have access to these methods as we do not use .NET. Are there any methods we can use to disconnect these sql connections?

Hi Dean,
Moved to the Legacy Application forums. Likely using the RDC as your report engine.
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Dear Experts,
I am being asked to revise the Dunning Letters for our clients. The existing PLDs for each Dunning Letter shows most data fields as system variables. The existing Crystal Report for Dunning Letter 1 is a conversion from the PLD and doesn't show table information for most of the report's main items. There are tables in the report but they are standard ones (OADM, OADP, OCRD, OHEM, OSLP). It also includes a "table" called "PLD__ITEMS" which has all the PLD system variables and no B1 table or field/column information.
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Thank you Nagarajan. I have a dunning letter created in Crystal Reports for our client. It is fairly limited in scope, it just has the customer name and address, invoice numbers and dates, amounts due and the text they wanted in it.
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So, does anyone have any ideas for what selection criteria needs to be included in the Crystal report to have it select just one customer from the dunning wizard tables? Thanks.
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Exporting Crystal Report to HTML is not working in Windows 7

Hi Sir,
I am trying to export Crystal Report to HTML format using VB.NET code. Functionality is working fine at Windows XP Environment (Save to Disk, Open an Application and Email Attachment). But the same functionality is not working at Windows 7 Environment (both 32-Bit as well as 64-Bit).
Below is the code to Exporting Crystal Report to HTML in VB.NET.
Dim CrDiskFileDestinationOptions As New DiskFileDestinationOptions
Dim CrFormatTypeOptions          As New HTMLFormatOptions
Dim vFormat As Integer
Dim CrExportOptions As New ExportOptions
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End If
sfd.Filter = "Webpage, Complete(.htm;.htm)|.htm|Web Archive, Single file(.mht)|.mht|Webpage, HTML only(.htm;.html)|.html"
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CrFormatTypeOptions.HTMLEnableSeparatedPages = True
CrFormatTypeOptions.HTMLEnableSeparatedPages = True
CrFormatTypeOptions.HTMLHasPageNavigator = True
CrFormatTypeOptions.UsePageRange = True
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                    .ExportDestinationType = ExportDestinationType.DiskFile
                    .ExportFormatType = ExportFormatType.HTML32
                    .DestinationOptions = CrDiskFileDestinationOptions.DiskFileName
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vRdReport.Export()
Catch ex As Exception
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End Try
Code working fine at Windows XP, But it is not woking in Windows 7 environment.
Please can anyone share your valuable thoughts or ideas reg. this.
Thanks in Advance
Deivanayaga Perumal D.

user13509659 wrote:
Run this code to reproduce the issue.Which issue?
It looks like inheritance is broken in the component hierarchy for JFrame in Windows 7 JDK 1.6.0_23-b05. The only thing remotely related to inheritance in your code snippet is the WindowListener, which does little. See camickr's advice about built-in exit management.
EDIT - using the post title as a clue, I realize you may be talking about the component hierarchy, and whether the contentPane's background is visible through the upper layers. Instead of guessing, I'd prefer you describe your "issue" accurately (observed vs expected behavior).
Edited by: jduprez on Feb 10, 2011 1:01 PM

Print crystal report without using the print button on toolbar

Hi,
I am working on Crystal report XI. I need to print the report w/o using the toolbar. So I have inserted a print icon in the report. On clicking that icon it should call a jsp page which will print the report. I am not able to call any print methods provided by JRC to do this.
Can someone help me with this problem.
Is there some other way to implement it ?
Thanks
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Print the report where? On what printer? The server's printer?
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I have an general question on the performance of Crystal Reports: We are using Crystal Reports 2008 SP 2 in context with SAP BW 7.0. We don't have a BO XI. We use the BW as a central storage for our reports. Now we have the problem that the opening of some reports takes a long time. For expample one report needs ~13 secound an another > 5 minutes.
Where can be the problem? What happens in SAP BW when a report is called? And what can we do to make it faster?
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Hi Ingo,
the value of MaxPickListSize is "c8".
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Huge delay in Printing Crystal Report Layout

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I am experiencing big delays when printing a document that makes use of a Crystal Report Layout Design.
For example,
The Sales Quote is set to automatically print when added by the user.
When clicking 'Add', SAP freezes up and only about 30 seconds later does the printer finally print the document.
During that time, the user cannot use SAP at all.
The layout does have a lot of fields and a few formulas here and there.
Logically, I am thinking that that is the reason for the delay, as SAP needs to calculate and populate those fields.
Is there any other way that I could speed up this process? Or if you know what might be causing this speed issue?
Your assistance will be appreciated,
Thanks
Regards
Dario

Hi Dario,
Pl Try the Below Threads and Ref SAP Notes Provided by NagaRajan.
http://scn.sap.com/message/13419121#13419121
http://scn.sap.com/thread/2024941
Regards,
Vamsi

Crystal Report Preview Problem

Dear All,
I have done a crystal report for Sales Quote and imported using Administration-->Setup-->General-->Reports and Layouts.
It shows that the report is imported successfully but when i go and give print preview, it shows an error as "LogOn Failed Please Try Again".
I dont know why this error occurs.
But the other reports are working well.
Help me solving this issue.
Regards,
Janani

hi
Janani..
Actually i never Seen This Type of problem..
I have one Doubt May be u have Developed in ur system n then import it to the client server..
before importing have u change the login credentials....
After i search i got below link just have a look on below post If it's not use ful just ignore the mail....
System asks for SA Password when printing with Crystal Reports

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Hi every body,
We have a BOE system:
BO XI 3.1
Oracle db 10g
All running successful and can create some types of WebI report.
But we also want reports with Crystal Report.
1> So we install Crystal Report 2008 SP3 (without knowing the conflict error between BO XI 3.1 and Crystal Report 2008 SP3 and overwrite some .dll file). After installing, we can not create WebI report any more. And a error message box display: "DBDriver failed to load: C:\Program File\Business Objects\BusinessObjects ENterprise12.0\win32_x86\dataAccess\connectionServer\dbd_oci.dll ".
2> We uninstall Crystal Report SP3. But this is not the solution. Still error because of missing .dll files.
3> We open BO XI 3.1 setup and repair BO XI 3.1. Even we uninstall BO XI 3.1, delete all of its components and delete in regedit key. We install BO XI 3.1 again. Now we have full .dll file, not missing them any more. But when we open universe and click on Table browser, cannot fetching any tables.
We set rights for Oracle DB user again. But still error: cannot fetching.
4> We searched the solution for this problem on the internet. But not worked, no answer.
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T______T

Hi Paul,
I hope I read your question right!
Yes, It is possible to run XIR2 and 3.1 on the same server although it's not recommended by BO. You will need to make sure they are both pointing to different CMS databases and different FRS repositories, like you already mentioned you will need to specify different ports for the CMS db and Tomcat.
Why not uninstall Business Objects XI R2 in your BO development environment or a spare server (if you have one), and do a clean install of XI 3.1 SP3.
Tip: If you were already having performance issues with your XI R2 environment, I would seriously consider upgrading the hardware. XI 3.1 needs a bit more RAM and CPU than XI R2
Regards
Rim Geurts

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Dear All
I am having a great problem on generating PDF file by Crystal Report in J2EE.
I have my J2EE application runs Crystal Report to generate PDF files.
However for a report, i hit the following error (red color) when the PDF is generating.
But is no problem for the other reports.
Here is the code that i used to generate the PDF
My OS and Java version as follows
Window 2003 server.
Java 1.4.2_04
Please Kindly Help
Thanks very much
public static void export(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, String reportPath, ArrayList paramList, ReportExportFormat outFormat) throws Exception{
     System.gc();
HttpSession session = request.getSession(false);
Object reportSource = getReportSource(request, reportPath);
ReportExportControl exportControl = new ReportExportControl();
if(paramList != null && paramList.size()>0){
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ExportOptions exportOptions = new ExportOptions();
exportOptions.setExportFormatType(outFormat);
PDFExportFormatOptions pdfexpopts = new PDFExportFormatOptions();
exportOptions.setFormatOptions(pdfexpopts);
exportControl.setReportSource(reportSource);
exportControl.setExportOptions(exportOptions);
exportControl.processHttpRequest(request, response, session.getServletContext(), null);
exportControl.dispose();
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HttpSession session = request.getSession(false);
oReportClientDocument.open(reportPath, 0);
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00:57:08,671 ERROR reportdefinition Thread-28 - Report printer was not valid, switching to default printer.
00:57:08,687 ERROR objectformatter Thread-28 - com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.k: |Y
00:57:09,343 ERROR b Thread-28 - Disk Exporter: no output file was created by an exporter
00:57:09,343 ERROR b Thread-28 - PdfExporter: caught Exception in PDFFormatter.finalizeFormatJob (from destination?); java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

Hi,
I have tried this code but stil the same.
However i tried setup another tomcat and application in the other machine and the only job for the application is exporting the report that has problem, then the error is gone.
So i guess that is the memory size problem.
Thanks for this
One more question about the memory size between Tomcat and Crystal report.
I have set in catalina.bat as
set JAVA_OPTS = "-Xms2048M -Xmx1024M"
and CRConfig as
<JVMMaxHeap>1024000000</JVMMaxHeap>
<JVMMinHeap>512000000</JVMMinHeap>
1. Is that the correct setting.?
2. The memory in the JAVA_OPT and is the MAX and MIN memory that java would use,
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