Releasing Licenses Crystal Reports 2008

We are considering to migrate our infrastructure to Crystal Reports Server 2008. We have setup a test server with 5 CAL, and in order to make our reports work here, we had to modify our code slightly to use a different viewer (Interactive viewer is not available anymore), we had also to modify a bit our web.xml to configure a new servlet.
In our current infrastructure (Crystal Reports Enterprise 10) once we run a report via our Intranet Web application by invoking it through the Java APIs and displaying it with the crystal viewers, the licenses seem to be released even if the user still have the report in their browser's screen.
With the new Crystal reports server (Crystal Reports Server 2008) this is not happening and the licenses are released only when the timeout happens.
This doesnu2019t really work for us and we would like to reproduce the same behavior from the old version. Is there any server configuration or modification of the code that would allow me to achieve our desired behaviour on the new environment?
Thanks!

You would then be using unmanaged RAS, which, since Version XI (11.0) silently logs on to the system as the guest account and will use up a license. You do not have direct access to the session that was created, and do not have a way to log off.

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Licensing Crystal Reports 2008

Post Author: xstreamy
CA Forum: Upgrading and Licensing
Hi,
Can you please explain what the correct licensing would be for a SOA application for which 1 of the services is storing PDF documents (generated by using the Crystal Reports 2008 engine) into a database. These PDF documents would be made accessible through a windows application that can be used be multiple customers.
Kind regards
Xstreamy

You just need to fill out the following form to get redist rights:
[http://www.businessobjects.com/products/reporting/crystalreports/net/register_webapp/form.asp]

Crystal reports 2008 Fix Pack 2.4 Release Notes

It seems to be impossible to find any release notes for any of the fix packs. Can anyone point me to them?
Also if it's anyone from SAP reading this why are release notes not distributed in the downloads section or a link to them. It's a ridiculous situation not being able to find them, how are we meant to know if issues are fixed we raise or about fixes we should be installing and are not even aware of.

Filtering by Crystal Reports | Crystal Reports 2008, I see the items listed below. I cannot find any release notes.
Crystal Reports 2008
Utility
Crystal Reports 2008 Fix Pack 2.4 - Click Once
ZIP
50.372
Windows
English
22.01.2010
Crystal Reports 2008
Hot Fix
Crystal Reports 2008 SP2 - Fix Pack 2.4
ZIP
254.688
Windows
English
22.01.2010
Crystal Reports 2008
Utility
Crystal Reports 2008 Fix Pack 2.4 - Redist Install
ZIP
84.228
Windows
English
22.01.2010
Crystal Reports 2008
Utility
Crystal Reports 2008 Fix Pack 2.4 - Merge Modules
ZIP
117.236
Windows
English
22.01.2010
Crystal Reports 2008
Other
Crystal Reports 2008 SP1 - Hungarian Language Pack
ZIP
13.008
Windows
English
04.01.2010
Crystal Reports 2008
Utility
Crystal Reports 2008 Fix Pack 2.3 - Redist Install
ZIP
84.136
Windows
English
30.12.2009
Crystal Reports 2008
Utility
Crystal Reports 2008 Fix Pack 2.3 - Click Once
ZIP
50.292
Windows
English
21.12.2009
Crystal Reports 2008
Utility
Crystal Reports 2008 Fix Pack 2.3 - Merge Modules
ZIP
117.024
Windows
English
21.12.2009
Crystal Reports 2008
Hot Fix
Crystal Reports 2008 SP2 - Fix Pack 2.3
EXE
175.176
Windows
English
18.12.2009
Crystal Reports 2008
Utility
Crystal Reports 2008 Fix Pack 2.2 - Merge Modules
ZIP
114.168
Windows
English
03.12.2009

Crystal Report 2008 Runtime License

Hi,
I have a Crystal Report 2008 designer license.
I want to design reports and distribute to my clients.
Clients will just execute the reports through my application with the Crystal Report 2008 Runtime.
There is runtime available on:
https://websmp130.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/bobj_download/main.htm
While installing the runtime it does not ask for any license key.
my query is do we require any license to use the Crystal Report 2008 Runtime?
Can we install the same runtime on web servers so that multiple clients can use it.
Do we require any license for the Runtime on server?
Thanks,
Abhijit

Hi Thanks for the reply.
Just to make it sure is that means?
1. Crystal Report 2008 Runtime is free for the client applications.
2. Crystal Report 2008 Runtime requires the 'SAP Crystal Reports runtime server license' to use the runtime on server applications.
Is it correct.
Thanks,
Abhijit

Sub Report not working in Crystal Report 2008 using JSP

I am having developer license of Crystal Report 2008. I am able to generate report using Java JDK 1.5 , JSP,Oracle10g , deployed on WebSphere Application Server 6.1.0.29. I am not able to generate Sub reports. Can you please help us with sample code to how to call and configure subreport and please send configuration CRConfig.xml.
The below Error is Occurred on generating report.
On condition when we link the main report to subreport through parameter.
com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.lib.ReportSDKException: java.lang.NullPointerException---- Error code:-2147467259 Error code name:failed
                at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.JRCCommunicationAdapter.if(SourceFile:741)
                at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.JRCCommunicationAdapter.a(SourceFile:167)
                at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.JRCCommunicationAdapter$2.a(SourceFile:529)
                at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.JRCCommunicationAdapter$2.call(SourceFile:527)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.common.ThreadGuard.syncExecute(SourceFile:102)
                at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.JRCCommunicationAdapter.for(SourceFile:525)
                at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.JRCCommunicationAdapter.int(SourceFile:424)
                at com.businessobjects.reports.sdk.JRCCommunicationAdapter.request(SourceFile:352)
                at com.businessobjects.sdk.erom.jrc.a.a(SourceFile:54)
                at com.businessobjects.sdk.erom.jrc.a.execute(SourceFile:67)
                at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.RemoteAgent$a.execute(SourceFile:716)
                at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.CommunicationChannel.a(SourceFile:125)
                at com.crystaldecisions.proxy.remoteagent.RemoteAgent.a(SourceFile:537)
                at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ds.a(SourceFile:186)
                at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.a(SourceFile:1558)
                at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.ReportSource.getPage(SourceFile:767)
                at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.report.application.AdvancedReportSource.getPage(SourceFile:324)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.reportengineinterface.JPEReportSource.getPage(SourceFile:149)
                at com.businessobjects.report.web.event.s.a(SourceFile:158)
                at com.businessobjects.report.web.event.s.a(SourceFile:127)
                at com.businessobjects.report.web.event.bt.a(SourceFile:47)
                at com.businessobjects.report.web.event.bw.broadcast(SourceFile:93)
                at com.businessobjects.report.web.event.am.a(SourceFile:53)
                at com.businessobjects.report.web.a.t.if(SourceFile:2104)
                at com.businessobjects.report.web.e.a(SourceFile:300)
                at com.businessobjects.report.web.e.a(SourceFile:202)
                at com.businessobjects.report.web.e.a(SourceFile:135)
                at com.crystaldecisions.report.web.ServerControl.a(SourceFile:607)
                at com.crystaldecisions.report.web.ServerControl.processHttpRequest(SourceFile:342)
                at com.ibm._jsp._CrystalReportViewer._jspService(_CrystalReportViewer.java:107)
                at com.ibm.ws.jsp.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:87)
                at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
                at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:1143)
                at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:591)
                at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:481)
                at com.ibm.wsspi.webcontainer.servlet.GenericServletWrapper.handleRequest(GenericServletWrapper.java:122)
                at com.ibm.ws.jsp.webcontainerext.AbstractJSPExtensionServletWrapper.handleRequest(AbstractJSPExtensionServletWrapper.java:226)
                at com.ibm.ws.jsp.webcontainerext.AbstractJSPExtensionProcessor.handleRequest(AbstractJSPExtensionProcessor.java:286)
                at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebApp.handleRequest(WebApp.java:3453)
                at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.webapp.WebGroup.handleRequest(WebGroup.java:267)
                at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest(WebContainer.java:815)
                at com.ibm.ws.wswebcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest(WebContainer.java:1466)
                at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.channel.WCChannelLink.ready(WCChannelLink.java:119)
                at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleDiscrimination(HttpInboundLink.java:458)
                at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleNewInformation(HttpInboundLink.java:387)
                at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpICLReadCallback.complete(HttpICLReadCallback.java:102)
                at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.AioReadCompletionListener.futureCompleted(AioReadCompletionListener.java:165)
                at com.ibm.io.async.AbstractAsyncFuture.invokeCallback(AbstractAsyncFuture.java:217)
                at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncChannelFuture.fireCompletionActions(AsyncChannelFuture.java:161)
                at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncFuture.completed(AsyncFuture.java:136)
                at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.complete(ResultHandler.java:196)
                at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.runEventProcessingLoop(ResultHandler.java:751)
                at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler$2.run(ResultHandler.java:881)
                at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1473)
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                at oracle.jdbc.driver.ScrollableResultSet.getMetaData(ScrollableResultSet.java:1282)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.common.data.JdbcCrystalResultSet.getMetaData(Unknown Source)
                at com.businessobjects.reports.jdbinterface.common.ResultSetReader.bindToField(Unknown Source)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.ResultSetRecordReader.a(SourceFile:80)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.Rowset.a(SourceFile:1107)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.Rowset.z9(SourceFile:1025)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.Rowset.Aa(SourceFile:988)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.Rowset.z3(SourceFile:967)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.Rowset.bL(SourceFile:533)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.Rowset.zM(SourceFile:245)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.RowsetBase.zA(SourceFile:156)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.queryengine.QueryInfo.vE(SourceFile:261)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.datafoundation.DFQuery.for(SourceFile:628)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.datalayer.a.do(SourceFile:1621)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.datalayer.a.a(SourceFile:1404)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.m.b(SourceFile:334)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.j.b(SourceFile:515)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.m.o(SourceFile:408)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.m.a(SourceFile:173)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.ContextNode.a(SourceFile:114)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.ContextNode.a(SourceFile:95)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.j.case(SourceFile:1080)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.h.<init>(SourceFile:108)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.DataContext.a(SourceFile:254)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.DataProcessor2.a(SourceFile:4660)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.DataProcessor2.a(SourceFile:4574)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.DataProcessor2.new(SourceFile:2652)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.DataProcessor2.byte(SourceFile:2610)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.DataProcessor2.try(SourceFile:2282)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.DataProcessor2.int(SourceFile:2442)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.DataProcessor2.I(SourceFile:1013)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.DataProcessor2.if(SourceFile:4816)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.DataProcessor2.a(SourceFile:2020)
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                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.objectformatter.ObjectFormatter.a(SourceFile:243)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.objectformatter.ObjectFormatter.a(SourceFile:210)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.objectformatter.v.a(SourceFile:185)
                at com.crystaldecisions.reports.formatter.formatter.objectformatter.v.a(SourceFile:230)
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I'm not sure I understand what you mean by tabbed reporting. Do you mean having multiple reports open at once within the Crystal Reports Designer?
If this is the case, the viewer is designed to only have one report open at a time.

Crystal reports 2008 SP1 missing in BusinessObjects Crystal Reports website

We have used Crystal reports 2008 as a reporting utility in our application and have released our product last year. During our release the latest software available was Crystal reports 2008 base + SP1 + SP2 + Fix Pack 2.7 and same was mentioned in our documentation as mentioned in BELOW.
The current supported version of Crystal Reports is Crystal Reports 2008 with
Service Pack 2 and Fixpack 2.7. The installation sequence is as follows:
1. Install Crystal Reports 2008 base.
2. Install Crystal Reports 2008 SP1.
3. Install Crystal Reports 2008 SP2.
4. Install Fixpack 2.7. This can be found under the hotfix section on the web site.
Questions
1) Now the issue is that, Crystal reports 2008 SP1 is NOT available for download in the "Business Objects u2013 Crystal Reports Runtime Packages". Why was it removed? Any clue? Without this our instructions doesn't hold good.
2) If Crystal reports 2008 SP1 will NOT be available any more then what is the equivalent installable for "Crystal reports 2008 base + SP1 + SP2 + Fix Pack 2.7" to be used? Can Crystalreports 2008 SP3 Full Build + Fix Pack 3.3 be used instead of "Crystal reports 2008 base + SP1 + SP2 + Fix Pack 2.7" ?
Pls Clarify.

Hello,
Download Service Pack 3.0 full build: https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100009989492010E/cr2008_sp3_fullbuild.zip
and then Fix Pack 3.3: https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100016815822010E/cr2008fp33.exe
Then you and your users don't need to go through all of those upgrade steps.
Thank you
Don

Crystal Report 2008 error in generating existing reports

HI,
I have just now migrated my server from Win 2003, 32 bit to Win 2003, 64 bit. I was holding a valid license in the old server. Using the Product key and the registration number, I installed Crystal Report 2008 SP3 Build in the new server since Crystal report is supported in 64 bit version too. Now, while generating the existing reports from my application, I am getting error in event viewer as-
"The description for Event ID ( 4353 ) in Source ( Crystal Reports ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: The keycode assembly, BusinessObjects.Licensing.KeycodeDecoder.dll, cannot be loaded."
Can someone please suggest me how to resolve this error? Actually, while opening the crystal report from application, a pop-up comes as - "Internet Explorer Script error......._pe is undefined......Do you want to continue with this? " If I say Yes/No, it opens up the required page but drop down does not contain any info and 'OK' or 'CANCEL' button does not appear....
I need to solution ASAP. Please help.
Thanks
kmoondra

Crystal report is supported in 64 bit version too
Support on 64 bit OS does not necessarily mean that the product is 64 bit. E.g.; CR 2008 (12.x) is still only 32 bit. Only CRVS2010, CR 10.2 and CR 10.5 come in both 32 bit and 64 bit flavors.
If you are using 32 bit Crystal Report, make sure your app is compiled as 32 bit, not "Any CPU". If you compile as "Any CPU" the 64 bit oS will want 64 bit runtime for the app by definition. This will fail as there is no 64 bit runtime for CR 2008. E.g.; follow the advice in Don's post.
- Ludek

How to overcome the Memory leakage issue in crystal report 2008 SP2 setup.

I have developed the small windows based application tool with help of Visual studio 2008 for identify the memory consumption of crystal report object. It helps to load the crystal report objects in the memory and then released the object from the memory. The tool simply does the u201CLoading and Unloadingu201D the objects in the memory.
The tool will be started once u201CTest_MemoryConsumption.Exeu201D executed. The u201CTest_MemoryConsumption.Exeu201D consumes u201C9768 KBu201D memory before load the crystal report object in memory. It means, 9768 KB is normal memory consumption for run the tool.
Crystal report object initiated by the tool and object help to load the report in memory once the tool initiated the crystal report object. Now u201CTest_MemoryConsumption.Exeu201D consumes u201C34980 KBu201D memory during the crystal report object creation and report load process. The actual memory consumption of crystal report object is 34980u20139768=u201C25212u201DKBu201D.
The memory consumption u201C34980 KBu201D will be continued till the end of the process. The memory consumption will be reduced to u201C34652 KBu201D from u201C34980 KBu201D once report load process completed. It means, u201C328 KBu201D memory only released from the memory consumption. Tool enables the Release command for the crystal report object. But crystal report object does not respond to the command and will not release his memory consumption.
The memory consumption u201C34652 KBu201D will be stayed in the memory once job ends. If i again initiate the crystal report object then it crystal report object start to consume the memory from 34652 KB.
Database objects and crystal report objects are properly used in the tool. The object release commands properly communicated to crystal report setup. But the u201CCrystal report service pack 2u201D setup unable to respond the commands which has enabled from .Net Tool. Crystal report objects are properly initiated and disposed in the tool. But the crystal report unable to release from the server.
The memory consumption will be reduced once the server restarted or kill the application.
Crystal report 2008 and crystal report 2008 SP2 setup available in the server.
Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 SP2, Microsoft .Net Framework 3.0 SP2 and Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 are available in the server,
Could you please suggesst how to avoid the memory consumption keep increasing and how to release the memory consumption once the crystal object disposed???

Hi Don..
My case is different one. I hope, the problem with Run time Installation setup file (Crystal report 2008 Serivce Pack2 installer) which we installed in the server.
Let me explain with Live scenario which our client faced in crystal report 2008 Service pack2 Installer.
Our client is using a application to help to print their reports. The application is developed with Windows service.
Windows service keep on running in the server. Windows service executes the client 's crystal reports( Labels Report, Stock report) which designed for clients need and the reports will be printed from printer.
10 Same type report (Label Report) will be printed in 1 minute. Reports are not printing during non business hours. But the windows service keep on running. Memory cosumption of application will be 160 MB in business hours.
For Example, On Monday the application memory consumption starts with 160 MB. The Memory consumption will be reached 165 MB in peak business hours. Then the memory will be ended in163 MB in the End of Monday. It means, The memory consumption will be in 163 MB during the non business hours. Reports will not be printed in non business hours.
On Tuesday, the application memory consumption starts with 163 MB and it will be reached 168 MB during the peak hours. The Memory consumption will be ended in 165 MB in the end of Tuesday. The same process contiues till friday. End of friday, the memory consumption of the application will be ended with 170 MB.
Application Memory Consumption slowly increasing in the server. In 5 days, Memory consumption reached Threshold value (170 MB) of the server. Application gets hanged up once the memory consumption reached 170 MB. We got the error messages as "Attempted to read write protected memory " / "Not Enough memory for process". If we restart server / If we restart the service then memory consumption of application get reduced to 160 MB.
From the above scenario, We came know that the either the problem with Application object or the problem crystal report object. In the application, We have checked dispose methods of application objects completly. I am sure that application objects are properly disposed in the application. I hope the problem not with application objects. The problem with Crystal report objects.
Application properly communicates the dispose methods to crystal report objects. Crystal report objects are not released from
the memory.
Crystal report 2008 Serive Pack 2 setup installed in the server.
As you said, If Crystal report runtime is not released from memory then memory consumption keep increase??? In service oriented architecture application, how to unload the crystal report runtime??
Do you any fix for this kind of issue??
Willl Crystal report 2008 service pack 3 help on this issue??

Crystal Reports 2008 and Sharepoint Services in 64bit

Hi,
I have searched and post questions about the problems with the fact that thera are no great support for 64 bit. And still no solution. Why? Why? Why?
Now to my question. I have Crystal Reports 2008 in a Windows 2008 64 bit. Yes, I have got it running with the help of: Enable32bitAppOnWin64. But now to my problem...
I want to run Sharepoint Services 3.0 on the same server. But read on Microsoft.com:
The hardware and software requirements described in this article apply to both x32-bitu2013based and x64-bitu2013based systems. However, if you installed the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 and then modified the Enable32bitAppOnWin64 registry key so that Internet Information Server (IIS) is running in 32-bit emulation mode, you cannot install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. To install either 32-bit or 64-bit Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 you must run IIS in 64-bit mode.
Does this means that I cannot run my webapp and Sharepoint Services on the same machine just because you havent find any solution to the 64-bit problem? What to do???
/R

Raymond,
We have 64 bit runtime for Crystal Reports Basic that comes with Visual Studio .NET 2008. The version number for CR Basic is 10.5.
It sounds like you are out of luck if you want to use Crystal Reports XI R2 or Crystal Reports 2008 because there are no plans to release native 64 bit assemblies in those versions.

No SAP Datasources or SAP Toolbar in Crystal Reports 2008

I cannot see the SAP toolbar or SAP datasources under "Create New Connection" in Crystal Reports 2008 SP1.
After reading many threads on SDN and reistalling Crystal Reports 2008 SP1 and the BOBJ SAP Integration Kit many times I have not been able to get this to work. I have installed the following in order:
- SAP GUI for Windows
Release: 710
Build: 1046700
Patch Level: 12
includes the BW 3.5 AddOn and BI 7 AddOn
Crystall Reports 2008 SP1 which I installed all components except Legacy XML Export.
Business Objects XI Integration Kit XI 3.1 for SAP which I installed all desktop components and all server components excluding web content and SDK. This was a local install on my PC.
I have ensured that I have only one instance of SAPLOGON.ini on my PC.
I have not applied the transports yet because I want to see the SAP datasources and SAP toolbar in Crystal Reports before I progress.
We do not have Business Objects Enterprise and I'm not sure what "BOE 3.1 Client Tools" is referred to earlier in this thread. My understanding is that in addition to SAP and BW we just need Crystal Reports 2008 and the SAP integration kit.
We are on ECC6 and BW 3.5.
I hope someone can help.

Hi Stratos,
Thanks for your response. I finally got this working. My issue was that I originally used the Crystal Reports 2008 and BOBJ Int Kit downloads from the SAP support portal. I checked with another SDN user Steven Dierick - thanks Steven - for the version of Crystal Reports 2008 he was using (version 12.0.0.683).
I downloaded Crystal Reports 2008 version 12.0.0.683 and the BOBJ Int Kit from the downloads section of sdn and it works!! SAP Toolbar, datasources and everything.
Considering I'm using Crystal Reports 2008 SP0 are there any disadvantages of not using Crystal Reports 2008 SP1?
If I'm better off using SP1 where should I download Crystal Reports 2008 SP1 and the appropriate BOBJ SAP Integration Kit?
cheers,
John

Export from Crystal Reports 2008 viewer fails if run on separate thread

I have a windows desktop application written in Visual Basic using Visual Studio 2008. I have installed and am trying Crystal Reports 2008 to run a report. Everything seems to work well except that when I preview a report (using the viewer control) and click the export button found in the upper left corner of that control, I get the following message:
Error 5: Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. Ensure that your Main function has STAThreadAttribute marked on it. This exception is only raised if a debugger is attached to the process.
I am a little confused on what to do exactly. Is the problem because I am running in the Visual Studio 2008 IDE? It says this exception is only raise if a debugger is attached to the process. No, I tried running it outside the IDE. The exception wasn't generated but the application hung when the button was clicked.
It says the current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode. If the report is run on its own thread, is the "current" thread the thread the report is running on or is the main application's UI thread? I don't think I want to set my main application to single thread apartment mode because it is a multi-threaded application (although I really don't know for sure because I am new to multi-threaded programming).
My objective is to allow reports to run asynchronously so that the user can do other things while it is being generated. Here is the code I use to do this:
    ' Previews the report using a new thread (asynchronously)
    Public Sub PreviewReportAsynch(ByVal sourceDatabase As clsMainApplicationDatabase)
        Dim backgroundProcess As System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker
        ' Start a new thread to run this report.
        backgroundProcess = New System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker
        Using (backgroundProcess)
            ' Wire the function we want to run to the 'do work' event.
            AddHandler backgroundProcess.DoWork, AddressOf PreviewReportAsynch_Start
            ' Kick off the report asynchronously and return control to the calling process
            backgroundProcess.RunWorkerAsync(sourceDatabase)
        End Using
    End Sub
    Private Sub PreviewReportAsynch_Start(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventArgs)
        ' The source database needed to call preview report was passed as the only argument
        Call PreviewReport(CType(e.Argument, clsMainApplicationDatabase))
    End Sub
    ' Previews the report. From the preview window, the user can print it.
    Public Function PreviewReport(ByVal sourceDatabase As clsMainApplicationDatabase) As FunctionEndedResult
        Dim errorBoxTitle As String
        Dim frmPreview As frmReportPreview
        ' Setup error handling
        errorBoxTitle = "Preview " & Name & " Report"
        PreviewReport = FunctionEndedResult.FAILURE
        On Error GoTo PreviewError
        ' Set up the crxReport object
        If InitializeReportProcess(sourceDatabase) <> FunctionEndedResult.SUCCESS Then
            GoTo PreviewExit
        End If
        ' Use the preview form to preview the report
        frmPreview = New frmReportPreview
        frmPreview.Report = crxReport
        frmPreview.ShowDialog()
        ' Save any settings that should persist from one run to the next
        Call SavePersistentSettings()
        ' If we got this far everything is OK.
        PreviewReport = FunctionEndedResult.SUCCESS
PreviewExit:
        ' Do any cleanup work
        Call CleanupReportProcess(sourceDatabase)
        Exit Function
PreviewError:
        ' Report error then exit gracefully
        ErrorBox(errorBoxTitle)
        Resume PreviewExit
    End Function
The variable crxReport is of type ReportDocument and the windows form called 'frmPreview' has only 1 control, the crystal reports viewer.
The print button on the viewer works fine. Just the export button is failing. Any ideas?

Hi Trevor.
Thank you for the reply. The report document is create on the main UI thread of my application. The preview form is created and destroyed on the separate thread. For reasons I won't get into, restructuring the code to move all the initialization stuff inside the preview form is not an option (OK, if you a really curious, I don't always preview a report, sometimes I print and/or export it directly which means the preview form isn't used).
What I learned through some other research is that there are some things (like COM calls and evidently some OLE automation stuff) that cannot be run on a thread that uses the MTA threading model.   The export button probably uses some of this technology, thus the message stating that an STA threading model is required. I restructured the code as follows to accomodate this requirement. Here is a sample:
' Previews the report using a new thread (asynchronously)
    Public Sub PreviewReportAsynch(ByVal sourceDatabase As clsMainApplicationDatabase)
        Dim staThread As System.Threading.Thread
        ' Start the preview report function on a new thread
        staThread = New System.Threading.Thread(AddressOf PreviewReportAsynchStep1)
        staThread.SetApartmentState(System.Threading.ApartmentState.MTA)
        staThread.Start(sourceDatabase)
    End Sub
    Private Sub PreviewReportAsynchStep1(ByVal sourceDatabase As Object)
        Dim staThread As System.Threading.Thread
        ' Initialize report preview. This includes staging any data and configuring the
        ' crystal report document object for use by the crystal report viewer control.
        If InitializeReportProcess(DirectCast(sourceDatabase, clsMainApplicationDatabase)) = FunctionEndedResult.SUCCESS Then
            ' Show the report to the user. This must be done on an STA thread so we will
            ' start another of that type. See description of PreviewReportAsynchStep2()
            staThread = New System.Threading.Thread(AddressOf PreviewReportAsynchStep2)
            staThread.SetApartmentState(System.Threading.ApartmentState.STA)
            staThread.Start(mcrxReport)
            ' Wait for step 2 to finish. This blocks the current thread, but this thread
            ' isn't the main UI thread and this thread has no UI anymore (the progress
            ' form was closed) so it won't matter that is it blocked.
            staThread.Join()
            ' Save any settings that should persist from one successful run to the next
            Call SavePersistentSettings()
        End If
        ' Release the crystal report
        Call CleanupReportProcess(DirectCast(sourceDatabase, clsMainApplicationDatabase))
    End Sub
    ' The preview form must be launched on a thread that use the single-threaded apartment (STA) model.
    ' Threads use the multi-threaded apartment (MTA) model by default. This is necessary to make the
    ' export and print buttons on the preview form work. They do not work when running on a
    ' thread using MTA.
    Public Sub PreviewReportAsynchStep2(ByVal crxInitializedReport As Object)
        Dim frmPreview As frmReportPreview
        ' Use the preview form to preview the report. The preview form contains the crystal reports viewer control.
        frmPreview = New frmReportPreview
        frmPreview.Report = DirectCast(crxInitializedReport, ReportDocument)
        frmPreview.ShowDialog()
    End Sub
Thanks for your help!
Andy

Crystal Reports 2008; Can't select the certain table. Why?

Please help me everyone!
problem note:
I'm using Crystal Report 2008 to access MS SQL Server 2005 Database.
Everything was good until last month.
But somehow when I select the table "FTABLE11C", Crystal Repors hanging-up and no more Crystal Reports works.
If I copy the FTRAN11C to different name such as "aaa" using following statement and use Crystal Reports then I can select the "aaa" whthout problems.
Select * into aaa from FTRAN11C.
So, I drop the tbale FTRAN11C and copy FTRAN11C from aaa table using following statement,
select * into FTRAN11C from aaa
and select the FTRAN11C again on Crystal Reports 2008, Crystal Reports 2008 hanging-up again.
I'd like to know how to solve this situation.
Thanks.
1. We didn't have any patch on SQL Server.
2. I delete one field on table that named "FTRAN11C".
   That's all.
3. I tried following steps;
   a. Copy the file to another name.
        Select * into aaa from FTRAN11C
   b. Droped the bad table.
        Drop table FTRAN11C
   c. Copy back from saved table.
        Select * into FTRAN11C from aaa
4. Open Crystal Reports 2008
   a. Connect to database with OLD DB.
       Crystal Reports shows all the tables within database without any problems.
   b. Select the table aaa.
       No problems. It shows on right side box.
   c. Select the table FTRAN11C that is recently created from saved table.
       Now we have problems.
        It does not shows on right side box.
        Little circle displaying forever.
        If I click right side x, Crystal Reports 2008 is closed.
5. If I use following command on SQL Server Management Studio Express, all of data shows without any problems.
       Select * from FTRAN11C

Install all patches as you are on the original release:
Be sure you have the keycode, used to install the product, I will not be able to get you a new one if you lose it or don't have it available.
The easiest way to update is to uninstall CR 2008 and then install Service Pack 3 full build:
https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100009989492010E/cr2008_sp3_fullbuild.zip
Then install SP 4:
https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100008782452011E/cr2008sp4.exe
Then test your reports again.
As for using/upgrading to CR 2011 it's not required and likely won't make any difference but you can upgrade if you want of course.
Don

Crystal Reports 2008 Version 12.2.6.567 Crashes with APPCRASH , opensql.dll

Hello everyone,
I have download and installed a trial license of BOBJ 3.1, i have installed an SAP INT Kit and have been trying to convert some sample CR from the SAP servers " iwdfvm..." to a local SAP Server on the network. I receive this error in crystal reports when i try to update the data source
Problem Event Name:     APPCRASH
Application Name:     crw32.exe
Application Version:     12.2.6.567
Application Timestamp:     4ba3856d
Fault Module Name:     crdb_opensql.dll
Fault Module Version:     12.1.0.890
Fault Module Timestamp:     48db6ad0
Exception Code:     c0000005
Exception Offset:     000aea07
OS Version:     6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.1
Locale ID:     1033
Please help me understand why i can not change any of the datasources. The funny thing is this error has popped up in every version of CR and there are still no fixes that i have seen in 2008.

Hello everyone I have downgraded to the SP1 version of Crystal Reports 2008 seems to have fixed the problem.

Report Selection Formula Error with Crystal Reports 2008 SP3 Fix Pack 3.5

Hello,
My name is Carlos, and I would like to report a defect found in the Crystal Reports 2008 SP 3 Fix Pack 3.5 Runtime that is affecting the majority of our reports. As well, I would like to ask if there is a simple workaround that does not involve updating hundreds of reports.
The issue is that the runtime engine incorrectly returns the report selection formula. I have included sample code showing what I mean.
To reproduce;
1. Create a simple report that has a date range filter like:
({Orders.Order_Date} >= {?START_DATE})
AND ({Orders.Order_Date} <= {?END_DATE})
2. Create a test app as follow that loads a report using the following code:
ReportDocument rpt = null;
try
rpt = new ReportDocument();
rpt.Load("TestReport.rpt");
this.txtMessage.Text = string.Format(
    "ReportSelectionFormula:{0}{1}",
     Environment.NewLine,
rpt.RecordSelectionFormula);
catch (Exception ex)
this.txtMessage.Text = ex.ToString();
3. Install Crystal Reports 2008 SP3 Fix Pack 3.5 Runtime [https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100006341772011E/cr2008fp35_redist.zip]..
4. Execute the app.
At this stage, the screen shows
ReportSelectionFormula:
(   ( NOT {Orders.Order_Date} >= {?START_DATE} )   AND   ( NOT {Orders.Order_Date} <= {?END_DATE} )   )
The expected value is:
ReportSelectionFormula:
(   ( {Orders.Order_Date} >= {?START_DATE} )   AND   ( {Orders.Order_Date} <= {?END_DATE} )   )
If we were to repeat the same test above but use the Crystal Reports 2003 SP3 runtime (i.e. no Fix Pack), which can be dowloaded from [https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100007123592010E/cr2008sp3_redist.zip], we would get the correct report selection formula. A side-effect for this incorrect report selection formula is a runtime exception complaining about an errorkind and a boolean being expected.
Do you know if there is any workaround that I can apply in code, perhaps a different Fix Pack? Is there a Fix Pack expected to be released soon? It is not practical for us to update our reports and use a different style in the record selection formula because we have many such reports, and our customers probably have even more.
Thank you.
-Carlos.

Already a known issue, here's the [KB 1584095 - A boolean NOT is added at the beginning of a record selection formula when the report is loaded by the Crystal Reports .NET SDK |http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes_boj/sdn_oss_boj_bi/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/scn_bosap/notes%7B6163636573733d36393736354636443646363436353344333933393338323636393736354637333631373036453646373436353733354636453735364436323635373233443330333033303331333533383334333033393335%7D.do]

Landscape Problems with Crystal Reports 2008 SP3

My initial install of Crystal Reports 2008 was SP2 (12.2.0.290). After installing SP3 and Fix Pack 3.3, I started to experience problems with reports in landscape orientation.
The reports are set up as 11x8.5 in landscape. They are loaded into a third party application that uses a Crystal Reports reviewer.
For some printers, the reports will reset to the 11x17 page size in portrait. For others the reports stay at 11x8.5 landscape.
The reports are typically set up with the "No Printer (optimize for screen display)" option active, but I tried a wide range of options including setting the "Microsoft XPS Document Writer" as the reference printer to activating the "Dissociate formatting Page Size and Printer Paper Size" option. None of this helped.
I backed out FP3.3 and that did not help. After I backed out SP3, the problem went away. It seems like something changed in the SP3 release that is causing this issue.
What's the best way to communicate this to SAP? I would like to see this fixed in a future patch.

My initial install of Crystal Reports 2008 was SP2 (12.2.0.290). After installing SP3 and Fix Pack 3.3, I started to experience problems with reports in landscape orientation.
The reports are set up as 11x8.5 in landscape. They are loaded into a third party application that uses a Crystal Reports reviewer.
For some printers, the reports will reset to the 11x17 page size in portrait. For others the reports stay at 11x8.5 landscape.
The reports are typically set up with the "No Printer (optimize for screen display)" option active, but I tried a wide range of options including setting the "Microsoft XPS Document Writer" as the reference printer to activating the "Dissociate formatting Page Size and Printer Paper Size" option. None of this helped.
I backed out FP3.3 and that did not help. After I backed out SP3, the problem went away. It seems like something changed in the SP3 release that is causing this issue.
What's the best way to communicate this to SAP? I would like to see this fixed in a future patch.

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