Discoverer Report unable to Save As

Hi,
I am unable to save a Discoverer Report using Discoverer Viewer ?
Its giving the following error message.
Please help.
"The application encountered an invalid state.
OracleBI Discoverer Viewer was unable to find the necessary data for displaying
the results of this event. Please correct any errors and try again.
Error Encountered"
Regards
Ram

Hi Ram
Most likely you are on either a non-upgraded or old cumulative patch version of Discoverer. This issue happens a lot on the out-of-the-box Discoverer - 10.1.2.48.18 but goes away when you upgrade to 10.1.2.2. You should also patch up to the most recent cumulative patch, which as of today is CP8.
Please see this posting on my blog for more about patch and release numbers: http://learndiscoverer.blogspot.com/2008/04/most-useful-patch-numbers.html
Best wishes
Michael

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