Limitation on data passed to Crystal Report

Question

Hello, I have a very basic question that I cannot find the answer to in the manual or online.
We are pulling data from a SQL 2005 database.  Specifically, we are querying information that contains very complicated legal instructions - the equivalent of two dozen pages of text.
We are finding that the data is being truncated once it reaches the report to about 7 pages....
Is there a limit on the amount of data Crystal Report XI can bring across from a single record. Or is this a limitation of the report itself? I am working with the developers who are struggling to make this work correctly and I am trying to get to the bottom off this.
Thanks for your time!
Dirk

Answer 1

I believe there is a limit to the length of string Crystal can work with, although I can't remember what it is off the top of my head, but probably 65534 characters - once upon a time it was 256 characters!
You could try working around this limitation by creating a few formulas, grabbing, say, the nth 1000 characters and storing it into a variable.
eg:
stringvar part1:=left(YourField, 1000);
stringvar part2:=mid(YourField, 1001, 2000);
stringvar part3:=mid(YourField, 2001, 3000);
etc...
Of course, you could wrap that up in a loop to automate it if you'd prefer.
Then, create a formula for each of the above "part(x)" variable to display the contents:
//Formula @show_part1
stringvar part1
//Formula @show_part2
stringvar part2
etc...
Finally, drop each of these "show" formulas into a single textbox and hopefully, you should get what you need.
If not, chop it up in the SQL command/view/whatnot and return it as seperate columns and concat them in a similar textbox fashion?
Let us know how you get on...
Ta,
J