Release Notes: 1. New Notes For Version 9.2.2 2. Installation

June 2002
Release Notes
Welcome to Crystal Reports 9, the world standard in high-performance reporting. With Crystal
Reports, you can quickly and easily convert data into powerful, interactive content for tight integration
into .NET, Java, and COM applications and for efficient delivery via the Web, wireless devices, and
Microsoft Office documents.
Contents
1. New notes for version 9.2.2
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Navigate 2. Installation
2.1. Minimum System Requirements
2.2. .NET Installation
2.3. Report Application Server (RAS) Installation
2.4. Side-by-Side Installation
3. Documentation
4. Notes and Limitations
4.1. Crystal Enterprise (CE) Integration
4.2. File Format
4.3. Unicode Support
4.4. Editions
4.5. Data Access
4.6. Developer
4.7. New Functionality and Known Issues
5. Language Version Issues
5.1. General
5.2. Add-ins
5.3. Data Access
5.4. Developer
5.5. Documentation
5.6. Report Designer
5.7. Report Viewers
6. Retired Features
6.1. Backward Compatibility
6.2. Compiled Reports
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6.3. Export DLLs
6.4. Developer APIs
6.5. Database DLLs
6.6. Report Creation Wizards
6.7. Report Designer Functionality
7. Issues Resolved in Crystal Reports 9
The notes contained in this document cover important information pertaining to this release of Crystal
Reports. Please read the entire document before performing the Crystal Reports 9 installation, and be
sure to visit the Crystal Reports web site for the latest product news.
http://www.crystaldecisions.com/products/crystalreports/default.asp.
Note: This document refers to many of its entries by ADAPT number. These numbers are generated
by the Crystal Decisions internal tracking system.
1. New notes for version 9.2.2

 This version of Crystal Reports does not upgrade the Crystal Reports 9 components (IDE
integration, registry keys, and files) included with Visual Studio .NET 2003. Check the Crystal Care
Technical Support website for the latest Crystal Reports updates to Visual Studio .NET 2003.
 There are four undocumented Public Instance Methods for Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET.
Namespace: CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine
Class: ReportDocument
Public Instance Methods:
SetParameterValue - Overloaded. Sets the current value of a parameter field.

The value can be a primitive, ParameterValue, an array of either type, or a ParameterValues
collection.
SetParameterValue(string, object)
Parameters: name, value
SetParameterValue(string, object, string)
Parameters: name, value, subreport
SetParameterValue(Int32, object)
Parameters: index, value
SetDatabaseLogon - Overloaded. Sets the database logon information.

SetDatabaseLogon(string, string)
Parameters: user, password
SetDatabaseLogon(string, string, string, string)
Parameters: user, password, server, database
ExportToDisk(ExportFormatType, string) - Exports a report to a file in the specified format.

Parameters: format type, file name
ExportToStream(ExportFormatType) - Exports a report to a stream in the specified format.

Parameter: format type

 When you connect natively to Lotus Domino, the Data Explorer incorrectly shows views that have
in fact been deleted within Lotus Domino; thus, Crystal Reports allows you to create reports based
on these deleted views. These views are not shown by the Lotus Notes client, and in the Lotus
Designer they are marked as deleted.
 When a report uses a native connection to Lotus Domino, fields containing a string value of 0
(zero) are incorrectly displayed as blank fields in the report.
 When you export a report to Lotus Domino Client, you should receive an error message if the
Lotus Client is not configured to work with Crystal Reports. This message may not appear. If you
encounter problems exporting to Lotus Domino Client, check your Domino configuration settings.
 If you convert OLAP reports from Crystal Reports 8.5 (or earlier) format to Crystal Reports 9, and
the reports include fields that have the $ symbol in the field name, you must reselect the database
fields in the Field Explorer in Crystal Reports 9.
 When reporting off an .hdc file, ensure that all of its supporting files are available to Crystal
Reports. Most importantly, if you move the original .hdc file to a different computer or to a network
drive, ensure that you also copy all other files that were created in the same directory as the
original .hdc file. Crystal Reports will not provide an adequate error message if the supporting files
are unavailable.
 You cannot create OLAP reports off Essbase cubes that have member names containing
commas.
 To design reports off Essbase 6.5 data sources, you can use this version of Crystal Reports in
conjunction with the Essbase 6.1 client software, or you can obtain an OEM build of Crystal
Reports from Hyperion (to connect through the Essbase 6.5 client software).
 If you create a report off an OLAP cube in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 8, you cannot
set the cube's location to an OLAP cube in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 7.
 Hyperlinks between reports are not supported in Crystal Enterprise. However, the hyperlinking
user interface within Crystal Reports 9 notifies users that the feature is available within a Crystal
Enterprise environment.
 To update Crystal Repository command objects in a Crystal Enterprise environment, ensure that
the "Verify on First Refresh" and "Verify Stored Procedure on First Refresh" options are selected in
the original report (click Report Options on the File menu in Crystal Reports).
 If you are using Windows 98/ME, do not cut or copy maps or charts while working in Preview. You
can cut or copy maps or charts in Design view.
 When viewing French reports in the DHTML Viewer, the calendar lists the days of the week in the
wrong order. Dimanche (DI) should be the last day of the week, not the first.
 The Data Direct DB2 ODBC Wired Driver may return incorrect values for the Remarks field of an
SQLColumns result set. If these values appear, Crystal Enterprise cannot add the table to the
report. This issue is documented in Data Direct's knowledge base article #15004194. To resolve
this issue, you can populate the Remarks field in your database table with a valid character.
 If you place a formula in a group header, and the formula contains only database fields and
evaluates WhilePrintingRecords, the data may be evaluated incorrectly when you export the report
to CSV format.
 Dimension labels may be displayed incorrectly if you have more than two OLAP grids in the same
section, and you select the Relative Positions option on the Common tab in the Section Expert.
 If you use a localized version of Crystal Reports (that is, a version translated into a language other
than English), you may encounter problems when you reopen a report that includes an OLAP grid.
Calculated members that depend on other calculated members may not appear when you reopen
the report. Also, if you apply filter or sorts to the OLAP grid, they will not be saved with the report.

2. Installation
2.1. Minimum System Requirements

 Microsoft Windows 98 (Second Edition), NT 4.0, 2000, Me, XP
Note: Windows 95 is not supported for Crystal Reports 9.
 32 MB RAM minimum (64 MB for Windows NT), 64 MB RAM recommended
 60 MB hard drive space minimum; 235 MB maximum for English, and up to 470 MB for other
languages
 Pentium or higher processor required
 CD-ROM
Notes
 If a machine has Crystal Enterprise Report Application Server (RAS) 8.5 installed, installing
Crystal Reports 9 or RAS 9 will change the version of the independent ProgID to point to RAS 9.
This changes any RAS 8.5 applications to use the RAS 9 SDK. If the RAS 8.5 application SDK
should be talking to a RAS 8.5 server, the application will not work; the RAS 8.5 application needs
to be changed use a versioned ProgID.
For example, in VBS,
set obj = CreateObject( "CrystalReports.DBField")
change to
set obj = CreateObject( "CrystalReports.DBField.1")
This was done to make migration easier (that is, so you can use your old applications with the new
RAS without having to make changes), however, it means you have to adjust your old
applications. (ADAPT 83991)
 Crystal Dictionaries and the Crystal SQL Designer are no longer included as part of the installation
of Crystal Reports. These components can be installed separately. (ADAPT 50576)
 Crystal Decisions supports the upward migration of reports from version 4.5 and above. Migration
of reports from versions older than 4.5 is not supported.
 Installing Crystal Reports 9 or RAS 9 with an existing installation of Crystal Enterprise 8.5 will
cause a New Report icon to be added to ePortfolio. This icon will not work (it returns a “HTTP404
Not Found" error). (ADAPT 87218)
 If you uninstall Crystal Reports 9 or RAS 9 from a side-by-side installation with Crystal Enterprise
8.5, the New and Modify features for reporting are removed from CE 8.5 as well. (ADAPT 86706,
86654)
 If you want to do a silent install, you must create an .ini file and reference your keycode there.
This applies to both Crystal Reports 9 and RAS 9 installations.
 Crystal Reports 9 uses an “install on-demand” technology for some of its subcomponents. As a
result, the very first time a particular component is used after being installed, there may be an
extra wait for this “install on-demand” feature to complete. Note that this behavior will only affect
new installations once and will not occur when components are restarted.
 Install-on-demand does not work for the MS Word export option. (ADAPT 90028)
 For Internet Explorer users, it is recommended that you upgrade your browser to IE5.5 SP2 if
viewing problems occur (as suggested by Microsoft).

 To make the Active Server Pages (ASP) backend rptserver.asp work with legacy viewers (Java
Applet viewer, HTML Viewers, and so on), you need a virtual directory called crystalreportviewers
configured on your web server. Map the virtual directory to the following path: (ADAPT 75941)
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Crystal Decisions\2.0\crystalreportviewers
 If your Crystal Reports 9 CD has been copied to a network share and you run the installation from
that place, the Release Notes link will not work. (ADAPT 91558)
 If you choose not to install to the default installation directory, do not specify a directory whose
name includes DBCS characters (such as Japanese characters), diacritical marks (è, ä, ñ, and so
on), and/or other special characters (Æ, æ, and so on).
2.2. .NET Installation

 Crystal Reports 9 enhances the Visual Studio .NET (VS .NET) development experience by adding
Crystal Reports 9 features to the Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Therefore, you must
install all of your .NET products before you install Crystal Reports 9, or you must rerun the Crystal
Reports 9 or Report Application Server 9 (RAS) installation programs after you install a .NET
product. (ADAPT 87307)
Here is a sample installation order:
1. Make sure Internet Information Server (IIS) is installed if you want to be able to host web
applications on your development machine.
2. Install Visual Studio .NET 2002.
3. Install the .NET mobile controls SDK.
4. Install Crystal Reports 9.
5. Install Report Application Server 9.
We highly recommend that you install at least the Report Application Server 9 Software
Development Kit (RAS 9 SDK) from the RAS 9 setup after you install Crystal Reports 9, because
some VS .NET 2002 features depend on the RAS 9 SDK. Most of the code samples illustrating the
use of new Crystal Reports 9 and RAS 9 features are in the RAS 9 samples.
 The Crystal Reports component of .NET may not function properly after uninstalling Crystal
Reports 9 from Visual Studio .NET. To restore functionality, you should run the Repair function in
the .NET setup. (ADAPT 89415)
 If you install Crystal Reports 9 and then rerun the Visual Studio .NET 2002 (VS .NET 2002) install
with the "Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET" option selected, you will see some problems. You
will have both Crystal Reports 9 and VS .NET 2002 controls in the toolbox, but VS .NET 2002 will
control code generation, publishing as a web service, and so on. To get Crystal Reports 9 to
regain control over the IDE, you’ll need to rerun the CR9 installation in repair mode. To properly
downgrade to VS .NET 2002 without Crystal Reports 9, uninstall CR9 and rerun the VS .NET 2002
installation in repair mode. (ADAPT 90314)
 When .NET Framework or Visual Studio .NET is not detected, related installation features are
disabled so they can’t be accidentally selected. If necessary, you can override this behavior by
defining a public property SHOWALLFEATURES=1 at the command line when starting setup.exe.
(ADAPT 59029)
 The Server Files node under "Crystal Services" in the Server Explorer no longer communicates
with the ServerFileReportManager.asmx web service. Instead, it contacts the Local Connection
Manager of the Report Application Server on the specified machine. Querysrv.exe must be
running on the specified machine for the Server Files node to work.
Similarly, the "Crystal Enterprise" node in the Server Explorer no longer communicates with the
EnterpriseReportManager.asmx web service. It now communicates directly to the Crystal
Enterprise APS through the Enterprise Bus ebus-3-3-2.dll. (ADAPT 87302)

For more information, see the Knowledge Base article at:
http://support.crystaldecisions.com/kbase/c2010319.asp.
 If you have been using the ServerFileReportService.asmx web service that shipped with Visual
Studio .NET 2002, you can continue to use it, but it will not work with new features like Report Part
navigation. Although Crystal Reports 9 Windows Form and Web Form CrystalReportViewer
controls may work with the old Visual Studio .NET 2002 ServerFileReportService.asmx, this is an
unsupported configuration. However, the Crystal Reports 9 ServerFileReportService.asmx was
designed to work with client applications created with the old CrystalReportViewer controls in
Visual Studio .NET 2002.
To upgrade your web server to use the new Crystal Reports 9 ServerFileReportService.asmx, use
the "Internet Information Services" configuration tool to map the virtual directory
"/CrystalReportWebFormViewer" to:
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Crystal Decisions\2.0\crystalreportviewers"
(Or the corresponding directory in your installation).
In Crystal Reports 9, the ServerFileReportManager.asmx and ServerFileReportService.asmx web
services still default to the "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Crystal
Reports\Samples\Reports" directory. If you would like to change this, modify the web.config file in
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Crystal Decisions\2.0\crystalreportviewers" to add
<configSections> and <crystalDecisions> XML nodes.
Here is a sample web.config file that sets the root of your Server File directory tree to
c:\inetpub\wwwroot:
<configuration>
<configSections>
<sectionGroup name="crystalDecisions">
<section name="serverFileReportManager"
type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=1.0.3300.0,
Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089, Custom=null" />
</sectionGroup>
</configSections>
<system.web>

<compilation debug="true">
<assemblies>
<add assembly="System.Xml, Version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, Version=9.2.3300.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Shared, Version=9.2.3300.0, Culture=neutral,
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.ReportSource, Version=9.2.3300.0, Culture=neutral,
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=9.2.3300.0, Culture=neutral,
</assemblies>
</compilation>


</system.web>
<crystalDecisions>
<serverFileReportManager>
<add key="rootDirectory" value="c:\inetpub\wwwroot" />
</serverFileReportManager>
</crystalDecisions>
</configuration>
(ADAPT 87302)
 After installing Crystal Reports 9, if you customize your toolbox and go to .NET Framework
Components, you might encounter an error that reads:
"The following assemblies are installed SDK assemblies but could not be shown in the customize
toolbox dialog because they are missing one or more components. Please make sure that all
necessary libraries are available. CrystalDecisions.web.mobile.dll"
This error occurs only if you don't have the Mobile components installed. (ADAPT 81046)
 Some Crystal Reports .NET features depend on the Report Application Server (RAS) SDK. For
example, if you have a hyperlink to another report object with the .NET WebForms viewer, and you
specify a 'ras://' path in the Report URI field, the .NET WebForms viewer will rely on the RAS SDK.
If do not have the RAS SDK installed, you will see the following error message:
Enterprise Report Application Server was not found. Ensure that you have specified an
EnterpriseSession.
To install the RAS SDK, run the Report Application Server 9 install, choose a Custom install, and
select “Report Application SDK.” If you do not install and run the RAS server on the same
machine, you will need to point your default ReportAppServer to a different machine; please refer
to the "Report Application Server (RAS) Installation" section for more details.
 When you start the VS .NET IDE, you may see a "Package Load Failure" in VS .NET for the
"VsRptDesigner" package or the "Crystal Reports Tools Package." To resolve this error, you must
run VS.NET with an account that has Administrator privileges, or with an account that is not a
roaming profile. This problem is caused by the VS.NET IDE failing to get a Cryptographic Service
Provider from ::CryptAcquireContext().
2.3. Report Application Server (RAS) Installation
2.3.1. Minimum System Requirements for the Report Application Server

 Microsoft Windows NT 4 SP6a or Windows 2000 SP2
 Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 4
 128 MB RAM minimum
 100 MB free disk space minimum
 Client Side Install (Client Web Browser)
 Microsoft Windows 98 SE, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft
 Windows NT 4 SP6a, or Microsoft Windows 2000 SP2

 Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2 recommended or Netscape Navigator 4.78 (Netscape Navigator 6.1
recommended).
(Note: Netscape Navigator 6.0 is not recommended)
2.3.2. Notes and Limitations

 Installation instructions for Report Application Server 9 can be found in the Doc directory of the
installation CD in the file called RAS_User.chm.
 You must install all your .NET products before you install Report Application Server, or you must
re-run the Report Application Server setup after you install a .NET product. Here is a sample
installation order:
1. Make sure Internet Information Server (IIS) is installed if you want to be able to host web
applications on your development machine.
2. Install Visual Studio .NET 2002.
3. Install the .NET mobile controls SDK.
4. Install Crystal Reports 9.
5. Install Report Application Server.
 Existing installations of the Report Application Server will be updated when this version of RAS is
installed.
 It is not possible to use the same keycode on multiple machines at the same time. If you attempt to
do this, the second RAS server will not start.
 This note describes how to connect to a RAS server on a different machine. Also, for the samples
to work, you have to perform solution (b) manually.
1. Install only the RAS SDK on machine A.
2. Install the RAS server on machine B.
Then you need to complete one of the following solutions in order to get the SDK on machine A to
talk to the server on machine B:
- Solution (a): In the SDK application on machine A, set the
ReportAppSession.ReportAppServer property to "B".
- Solution (b): leave the ReportAppSession.ReportAppServer property blank (unassigned) and
modify the config file on machine A (at Program Files\Crystal Decisions\Report Application
Server 9\clientSDKOptions.xml) to refer to the RAS server on "B".
Modify the <Server> node(s) in the clientSDKOptions.xml file. If you want to do round-robin load
balancing of your ReportAppServers at runtime, you can add a <ServerInfo> node for each
machine you want to load balance against.
 The mapping DLLs must be installed on the RAS server in order to view a report that contains a
map in the Web Report Design Wizard. To install the mapping DLLs, use the Crystal Reports
Installation CD and do a custom installation. Select only the Geographic Mapping option. For more
information about custom installations, see the Crystal Reports User’s Guide. (ADAPT 64858)
 If you are using WebLogic as your web server, update your WebLogic Start command file to use
the maximum memory size (update from 64 to 256). If you don’t make this change, the report
viewers will fail when you view a report that has a large chart (zoom factor set to 300% or 400%).
(ADAPT 87726)
 The RAS installation doesn't create a virtual directory for samples on Win.NET with IIS 6.0(v.525).
You must create the directory manually. (ADAPT 93901)

2.4. Side-by-Side Installation
 Crystal Reports 9 cannot be installed side by side with Crystal Analysis Pro (CAP) 8 Maintenance
Release 1. Crystal Reports 9 can, however, be installed side by side with Crystal Analysis Pro 8.5.
 Removing Crystal Reports 9 Developer Edition will cause components of applications based on
CRAXDDRT9 and CRAXDRT9 to be unregistered. (ADAPT 88535)
3. Documentation
 The printed version of the Crystal Reports 9 User’s Guide may not list the up-to-date system
requirements in the “Installing Crystal Reports” chapter. Please refer to the Installation section of
this document for the correct system requirements.
 The Crystal Reports 9 User’s Guide incorrectly states that some editions of Crystal Reports 9 are
shipped with a stand-alone version of Crystal Enterprise. Crystal Enterprise is not shipped with any
editions of Crystal Reports 9.
 The help folder installed with the Crystal Compatibility Tools contains documents from the previous
version of Crystal Reports. (ADAPT 90107)
 The documentation may not have the correct names for some of the financial functions. The
correct names for the functions are available in the Formula Workshop.
 The “Advanced viewer features” page of the RAS Viewer Help (Report_Viewers.chm) is incorrect.
The COM Report Page Viewer and COM Report Part Viewer do not support PDA output. As well,
the section called “Implementing COM web reporting viewers” incorrectly states that you can view
a chart from a mobile device and drill down on further details using the COM Report Part Viewer.
 In the "Change a command-line argument" section of the RAS_SDK.chm, the command line
argument should be:
querysrv.exe [-ipport <port number>]
 The “Using thread-safe database drivers” section of the Crystal Reports 9 User’s Guide should be
updated as follows:
- crdb_p2sdb2 now marshals to a single server thread.
- ODBC now offers multi-threading for IBM DB2 and DataDirect DB2 drivers. Use of the IBM
DB2 driver is recommended.
- crdb_query is now multi-threaded for commands that are in turn from one of the other thread
safe drivers outlined in the user’s guide.
 In the Java documentation, the following items should not be documented; they are not meant for
general use:
- RowsetCursorRecord (application package) (ADAPT 94521)
- getFilterController( ) and getFieldRangeItemAt ( ) (ADAPT 94511)
4. Notes and Limitations
4.1. Crystal Enterprise (CE) Integration

 Crystal Reports 9 can be integrated only with Crystal Enterprise 9. Crystal Reports 9 can be run
side-by-side with all other versions of Crystal Enterprise.

4.2. File Format
Reports in Crystal Reports 9 cannot be saved in the file formats of previous versions. To avoid loss of
reports from previous versions, it is strongly recommended that you save copies of all reports before
opening them in Crystal Reports 9.
4.3. Unicode Support

Crystal Reports 9 supports Unicode. Following are some differences in behavior you might notice in
Crystal Reports because of the changes made for Unicode support: (ADAPT 35109)
 Escape now cancels your changes in the middle of editing text objects (previously Escape stopped
the editing process, but committed the changes you'd made in the edit session).
 Going from the Design tab to the Preview tab stops editing of text objects and commits the
changes you have made.
 Choosing some dialog boxes stops the editing of text objects (for example, Remove Database but
not the Format Editor).
 If you require true multilingual user interface in the Report Designer or the RDC, you should run on
Windows NT, 2000, or XP (Crystal has a Win 9x wrapper layer, but it isn't as reliable as NT).
4.4. Editions
 The Standard edition of Crystal Reports 9 does not support Online Analytical Processing (OLAP).
OLAP options that appear in the user interface will not be functional. As well, when you apply a
template report containing an OLAP grid, you get the error message, “Cannot apply template to
document.”
 The Standard edition of Crystal Reports 9 does not include the Crystal Repository. (ADAPT
82663, 82654)
4.5. Data Access
4.5.1. General
 If you receive the following error message when accessing a data source in Crystal Reports:
"Query Engine Error - No Database DLL has been specified" it could indicate that the option to
install that database driver was not selected during a custom installation. (ADAPT 58875)
 Brackets are not supported in alias names. (ADAPT 94495)
 Asynchronous cross-data-source joins are not supported with multiple queries. (ADAPT 94561)
4.5.2. ACT!
 The vendor of ACT! no longer supports ACT! versions older than v.5 (ACT! 2000). This version of
Crystal Reports is tested only against the supported versions of ACT!. (ADAPT 67480)
4.5.3. Crystal Dictionaries

 Using the Finish button on the Choose Dictionary dialog box without first specifying a dictionary file
(DC5) or selecting the Use Cached Dictionary option will yield incorrect and unpredictable results.
(ADAPT 51904)
 If you create a dictionary file using a database DLL that has not been installed with Crystal
Reports, you will receive an error message when opening the dictionary in the report designer. To
avoid this problem, ensure you've used the desired driver in a report before you try to use it in a
dictionary. (ADAPT 88238)

4.5.4. Crystal Queries
 When previewing or refreshing a report that uses a cached QRY file, Boolean fields become
Numbers. This happens only when the QRY file was created in Crystal Queries 7; to solve the
problem, update you query in Crystal Queries 8. (ADAPT 88150)
 The query designer represents null values as 0. A report based on a query with saved data shows
0 instead of null values. When refreshed, such a report will show the null values correctly. (ADAPT
88742)
4.5.5. Crystal Rowset Provider

 If your selection criteria string contains quotation marks, the selection will fail. (ADAPT 84255)
4.5.6. DAO
 Reporting from an Access database via DAO has changed to use a SQL-style DAO interface for
better performance. As a result, you may see variation in the order of unordered records between
version 8 and version 9 reports. (ADAPT 89468)
4.5.7. DataDirect (Merant) ODBC Drivers

 Some new DataDirect (Merant) ODBC drivers may have different default settings from the
versions released with Crystal Reports 8.5. You have to change the settings manually (in the
ODBC Manager) in order to allow some specific features to work—stored procedures, for example.
(ADAPT 51613)
- ODBC SQL Server Wire Protocol Driver | Advanced | Enable Quoted Identifiers = checked
- Both Oracle ODBC Driver 4.0 and Oracle Wire Protocol ODBC Driver 4.0 | Advanced |
Procedure Returns Results = checked
 The DataDirect DB2 ODBC driver that is shipped with this release of Crystal Reports is not
enabled for multi-threaded database access. It is recommended that you use the IBM driver to
access a DB2 database via ODBC.
4.5.8. DB2
 The Add Command feature is not available when connecting natively to DB2 and Informix using
old versions of the drivers. You must use the new ODBC driver to access this feature. (ADAPT
83500)
 Adding a native DB2 table in Crystal Reports 9 is not supported. You can use crdb_odbc.dll to
work around this limitation. (ADAPT 86246)
4.5.9. FoxPro
 Accessing FoxPro through DAO is not recommended. Instead, use the FoxPro OLE DB provider
or ODBC. (ADAPT 21799)
 With Visual FoxPro 5.0, to select either 'starting with' or 'like' for an entire Date/Time string, make
sure that the Report Option called "Use Indexes Or Server For Speed" is not selected. (ADAPT
14483)
4.5.10. Informix
 Marshalling doesn't work for the Informix native driver. (ADAPT 70105)
 The Add Command feature is not available when connecting natively to DB2 and Informix using
old versions of the drivers. You must use the new ODBC driver to access this feature. (ADAPT
83500)

 Setting location from an Oracle connection to an Informix native connection fails. This is specific to
Informix table names where the schema is like <database>@<server>:<schema>.<table>.
(ADAPT 92486)
4.5.11. JavaBean Connectivity

 Before you can use the JavaBean Connectivity feature, you need to setup or modify the following
registry keys: (ADAPT 81346)
- Under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE  SOFTWARE  Crystal Decisions  9.0  Crystal
Reports", add a new key called "Database" and a new string value called
"JavaBeansClassPath". Edit the value data of JavaBeansClassPath to point to the directory or
directories that contains the compiled Java Bean class files. If you’re using more than one
directory, separate them with a semi-colon. For example:
C:\JavaBean\Datatype\;C:\JavaBean\Linking\
- Under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE  SOFTWARE  Crystal Decisions  9.0  Crystal
Reports", add a new string value called "JREPath". Edit the value data of JREPath to point to
the exact file location where jvm.dll is located. For example:
C:\j2sdk1.4.0\jre\bin\client\jvm.dll
 There are a number of limitations with the crdb_javabeans.dll driver:
- Float data type limitation–only from -1.79e+38 to 1.79e+38.
- TinyInt (unsigned: 0-255) in SQL and Byte (signed: -128-127) in Java cannot map to each
other unless you create a conversion function to map these data types.
- Merant driver issue–if data in the database table is not matched exactly for the entered
parameter value, a Query Engine Error will be returned.
 If you experience an error such as "unknown query engine error" when previewing a report based
on a JavaBean data source, use an earlier or later version of the JDK. There is a bug version
1.4.0_01 of the JDK. (ADAPT 92654, 92599)
 Binary and VarBinary data types both return Empty sets; however, the LongVarBinary data type
works as expected. (ADAPT 81550)
 Crystal Reports 9 cannot support JDBC reports that contain either Char8000 or VarChar8000
fields. However, JDBC LongVarChar (text) fields containing 8000 characters works as expected.
(ADAPT 81571)
 Some JDBC decimal (money) field data has a slight rounding difference when compared with
results using an ODBC driver. For example: for the data 922,337,203,685,000.5, ODBC will return
922,337,203,685,001.00, while JDBC will return 922,337,203,685,000.00. (ADAPT 81585)
 You cannot set the input parameter to Null for stored procedures. The "set to Null value" checkbox
is missing from the user interface even if the table itself (where the data is retrieved) contains null
value(s). (ADAPT 82029)
4.5.12. Lotus ODBC Driver

 The NotesSQL driver does not support Nested Outer Joins. (ADAPT 69701)
4.5.13. ODBC Drivers

 Converting a report with a working SQL Expression field to a data source where the field won't
work makes Crystal Reports fail. This is an issue only if you have a database connection open to
another ODBC database server type that the SQL Expression tries to verify itself against. To solve
this issue, remove the problematic SQL Expression before the report is refreshed. (ADAPT 83465)

4.5.14. OLE DB Driver
 The Logon dialog box appears when you click the Database Expert option for version 8.5 reports
based on an ADO connection. (ADAPT 43796)
 When specifying a SQL Sever database via OLE DB, no error message appears when you enter
an incorrect version SQL Server on the Connection Information screen. (ADAPT 57497)
 If a report contains saved data that includes Image fields or inserted OLE objects, they are not
visible in the Field Explorer when using the Crystal Rowset Provider. This limitation also includes
maps and charts that have been designed in the source report. (ADAPT 74913)
4.5.15. Open OLAP (HAPI)

 Crystal Reports ships with several versions of the DLLs for Essbase and DB2 but installs the most
recent version as the active one. If you want to use a previous version, delete the active version,
and then copy and rename the correct version.
4.5.16. Oracle
 Viewing a report that uses the Oracle native driver and has a picture field in it returns an error. As
well, switching between a report created with the Oracle native driver and another report that was
created with the Oracle ODBC driver causes a GPF when you refresh the data. (ADAPT 74133)
 The Data Direct (Merant) Oracle ODBC Driver does not support CLOB fields. (ADAPT 63132)
 Stored Procedures may fail if you are using an old Oracle ODBC driver. Upgrade to Oracle driver
8.01.74.00. (ADAPT 62686)
 Wrong Unicode data is returned if your SQL statement contains nvarchar and nchar data types in
the Where clause when using the Data Direct ODBC driver 4.0 (non-wire) for Oracle. Oracle didn’t
support these data types until its version 9 API. (ADAPT 73122)
4.5.17. SQL Server

 The SQL Server native driver has been deprecated; any reports using this driver will be
automatically converted to ODBC.
 Unnecessary spaces in a SQL query can create problems for stored procedures. If the data source
does not support quoted identifiers, a blank is returned. Therefore, if the return is blank, this
means NO QUOTED IDs, not USE BLANKS TO QUOTE IDs. As a result, there should be no
spaces in the query (check if = blank first). (ADAPT 63965)
4.5.18. Sybase
 The program allows you to set a Boolean parameter value to null even though Sybase does not
accept null Boolean values. Do not select this option. (ADAPT 60103)
 The native Sybase driver is not enabled for multi-threaded database access in this version of
Crystal Reports.
 Do not use a parameter of type “timestamp” in a Sybase stored procedure. (ADAPT 16830)
4.6. Developer
4.6.1. .NET Designer

 Importing Microsoft Data Reports or .DSR reports is not supported in the Crystal Reports 9 .NET
Designer. (ADAPT 61768, 90996)
 If the wrong date order is displayed on Custom Styles dialog box of the Format Editor, ensure the
check box called "Link separators to date order" is selected before you change the date order.
(ADAPT 54438)

4.6.2. .NET Mobile Viewer
 The .NET Mobile Viewer, cannot set different drilldown hyperlinks of fields in a multiple field report
part. This is a limitation of mobile device(s). (ADAPT 68588)
 You can retrieve only a limited number of records with the .NET Mobile Viewer. If you try to scroll
through a report with too many records, you will receive the following message: "Session state is
on longer available. Try to increase history size or session expiry limit." (ADAPT 93009)
 Using a context formula in the Initial Data Context and Object Name settings is not supported.
(ADAPT 93938)
4.6.3. .NET Project Migration Tool

 To migrate a web project properly, you should point ProjectMigrator.exe to the project directory. If
you point to a parent directory, you may need to delete the "%userprofile%\vswebcache" yourself.
For example, 'rmdir /s "C:\Documents and Settings\username\VSWebCache"'. (ADAPT 90173)
 When using the ProjectMigrator.exe tool, you should back up your project first. (ADAPT 82479)
4.6.4. .NET WebForm PartViewer

 You cannot use a Cross-Tab column for Report Part drilldown even though the user interface
appears to allow this action. (ADAPT 68376)
 In this viewer, the report title is displayed on each page of a multiple page report. This behavior
can be turned off in the code. (ADAPT 60517)
4.6.5. .NET WinForm Viewer

 Database login information cannot be passed in to a RAS server connection. If you need to modify
a specific database’s logon information, set ReportSource, get LogOnInfo, and then modify the
user and passwords in the collection. Otherwise, the user and password are set into the first logon
the viewer receives. (ADAPT 72725)
4.6.6. ActiveX Viewer

 The ActiveX Viewer has been enhanced. These report objects can now be viewed and printed:
- Rotated text
- Fully justified text
- Tabbed text (right, left, centered, and decimal-aligned tabs)
- Right-aligned paragraphs and text
- Bi-directional text
All Unicode scripts, including Arabic, can be rendered on all platforms, including Windows 98 and
Me, which don't natively support this capability. This also implies fully mixed language text (that is,
Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, and so on, all in the same report page). Digit substitution in Arabic and
Farsi locales is also now supported.
4.6.7. CRPE
 The function setNthCubeLogonInfo ignores the serverName parameter. If you want to change
OLAP servers, set the cube location within Crystal Reports. (ADAPT 60491)
 PELogonServer will not set the database logon info correctly (uid and password). PE calls
executed after calling PELogonServer that require a successful database login, such as
PEVerifyDatabase, will fail.
There is a workaround: PESetNthTableLogOnInfo will set the DB info on a per table basis. All
tables in the report (and any subreports) will need to be set individually for this to function
correctly. If it is set correctly, the logon will succeed for calls requiring a successful DB login. Using

PETestNthTableConnectivity will verify that the information is correct and DB logon will succeed.
(ADAPT 72445)
 When logging on to a PC database using the DAO, PECreateReport returns an error 708. (ADAPT
82626)
 Due to a limitation of the JVM, ensure that CRPE is initialized when the client program starts up
and un-initialized only when the program shuts down. This limitation applies only if you are using
crdb_javabeans.
4.6.8. Interactive Viewer (COM)

 In the Formula Expression editor, "Add Comparison Operator" or "Add Boolean Operator" always
adds the operator to the end of the expression, not the cursor position. Typing the operator works,
but selecting it always appends to the end. (ADAPT 59643)
 Currently, the HTML content of a report can overflow the viewer control's size. If the highlighted
object is in the overflow area, the auto-scrolling will not work. (ADAPT 58808)
 Clicking a field hyperlink from an exported table returns you to the main page with the correct field
highlighted, but the Alert table and Boolean search section do not reappear. This occurs only on
ASP pages, not on JSP pages. (ADAPT 62369)
4.6.9. Interactive Viewer (Java)

 If you click a date field in the Java Boolean Search, the search result will not navigate to the right
record on the page. For example, if you enter “Thu Mar 7,” but the report shows “2002/03/07,” a
match won’t be found even though the two values represent the same date. (ADAPT 67217)
 The Interactive Viewer (both .jsp and .asp pages) shows decimal places for Report Alerts you
configured to not show decimal place values. (ADAPT 62149)
 While displaying Report Alert records in the Interactive Viewer, clicking a record’s hyperlink
searches for and displays the original field unless that field has a different format from the
hyperlink. For example, if you set the “Last Year's Sales” field to be formatted as $1,123 in Crystal
Reports, but it is displayed as $1123 for the hyperlink seen in the Interactive Viewer, clicking the
hyperlink will not find the $1,123 field—it will only refresh the page. Note: This problem occurs on
both .jsp and .asp pages. (ADAPT 61852)
 If you navigate to another report and then click the Boolean search result (based on the original
report), the viewer navigates to the wrong place (that is, you are not taken back to the original
report). (ADAPT 68673)
4.6.10. Interactive Viewer (All)

 On pages where the group tree is longer than the data displayed on that page, the lower toolbar
cuts across the middle of the group tree. The default property HasPageBottomToolbar must be set
to False to avoid this problem. (ADAPT 92616, 93038)
4.6.11. Report Application Server (.NET SDK)

 In the .NET Report Application Server (RAS) SDK wrapper, some Report Application Server
(RAS) SDK methods, such as ReportTemplate.ApplyToDocument( Object ), take an Object
parameter that is marshaled to an IDispatch by the Common Language Runtime (CLR). However,
the CLR assumes that the object you pass is a Runtime-Callable Wrapper (RCW) for a COM
object, and not a managed object that implements a COM interface.
In those cases, if you try to pass in an EnterpriseReportDocument, you will get an
InvalidCastException in the CLR marshalling code. For example,
EnterpriseReportDocument entRptClientDoc = null;
...

rptTemplate.ApplyToDocument( entRptClientDoc );
To work with an EnterpriseReportDocument, you need to call InnerClientDocument to get the inner
ReportClientDocument, which is a COM object. To make the above code work, you would now
write this:
EnterpriseReportDocument entRptClientDoc = null;
...
rptTemplate.ApplyToDocument( entRptClientDoc.InnerClientDocument;
4.6.12. Report Application Server (COM SDK)

 If you encounter a case where the DatabaseController.DoSmartLinking fails to fetch new data, call
RowsetController.Refresh to get new report data that reflects the new table links. (ADAPT 61362)
 Deleting tables from query files is not supported. (ADAPT 69737)
4.6.13. Report Application Server (Java SDK)

 The FromString() method is not implemented in the Report Application Server Java SDK. (ADAPT
75353)
 Using the jvm.dll from IBM JRE for crdb_javabeans.dll can cause the Report Application Server to
fail. (ADAPT 92617)
4.6.14. Report Application Server (All SDKs)

 If two methods have the same name (but different signatures) within one class, you cannot specify
which method to use as a data source for report creation in the Report Application Server SDK.
(ADAPT 84754)
 Adding an invalid group filter does not return an error until fetching rowsets/previewing reports.
(ADAPT 66864)
 If you are having trouble accessing network resources using the Report Application Server, you
may want to run the "Report Application Server" Service using a network logon account. The RAS
service is configured to run under a LocalSystem account. If your reports are on a UNC path, and
if you need to use NT authentication, you must configure the RAS service to run under a network
logon account.
 Using WebLogic 6.0 SP2 Server in conjunction with the Report Creation Wizard can cause the
HTML in the Wizard pages to display incorrectly (the end of line characters are not being correctly
added to the JSPWriter.println() function in the WebLogic 6.0 SP2 implementation of JSP). To
work around this problem, add \n characters to the end of each line output to the user by the
wizard, or upgrade to WebLogic 6.1.
 VerifyDatabase() does not return an error if RAS fails to verify the table scheme used in subreports
due to missing logon information.
 Once a filter is added and data is fetched, modifying the filter only applies additional filters on the
original fetched data. You need to refresh to get a complete result set from the database server
again. (ADAPT 83528)
 A report template that contains a cross-tab chart cannot be applied in either the COM or Java RAS
SDKs. (ADAPT 89041)
 When using ISCRReportTemplateEngine::CreateTemplateFromDocumetn(), the
ReportClientDocument has to be opened with cdReportClientDocumentRetrivePictureImage
(1048576), otherwise any PictureObject and chart template in the template report will not be
applied to the target report.
 Using ConnectionDirManager to browse "MS Access" ODBC data sources causes memory leaks.
For more information, see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q132493.

 You can specify which DSN(s) to expose from CrystalReports.ConnectionDirManager using the
following registry:
HKLM\Software\Crystal Decisions\9.0\Report App\Server\ODBCConnectionMgr
DSNIncluded = <DSN name>[;<DSN NAME>]*
For example, DSNIncluded = "ORA_EN;NorthWind-MSSQL"
4.6.15. Report Designer Component (RDC)

 Changing a selection formula through crdesigner.dll/craxddrt9.dll does not automatically refresh
data after you save changes. (ADAPT 63074)
 You cannot lock an object through the RDC. If a report object is modified in Crystal Reports so that
its lock property is set to true, you can delete, cut, and/or move the object in the RDC. (ADAPT
63000)
 Report Templates cannot be applied through API calls in the Report Designer Component.
(ADAPT 71512)
 If you have a problem justifying Arabic text right to left, install the new uniscribe library called
usp10.dll. This library can be obtained by installing Office XP or Internet Explorer 6.0. (ADAPT
39188)
 Saving a report in the RDC using cr80FileFormat or cr70FileFormat saves the report file in Crystal
Reports 9 format. (ADAPT 49711)
 System or user-level security for Access databases is no longer supported in the RDC. (ADAPT
71645)
 The RDC Designer cannot modify custom functions that are connected to the Crystal Repository
(ADAPT 73513)
 The ability to make a report field or section read only is not supported in the RDC. (ADAPT 82008)
 The RDC AddADOCommand will fail with "Server not yet opened" when you use the OLE DB SQL
Server provider, SQLOLEDB. Using Persist Security Info = True works, but using Persist Security
info = False fails. (ADAPT 79870)
4.6.16. Report Part Viewer (COM)

 Once a report has been opened in the Report Designer, its Report Part objects cannot be viewed
in COM Report Part Viewer. (ADAPT 57737)
 Drop shadows are not supported as borders in the Report Part Viewer. (ADAPT 46071)
 Drilldown on field objects in the report header (RH) and/or report footer (RF) sections is not
supported in the Report Part Viewer. (ADAPT 61911)
 Setting a data context for non-English characters through code in the COM Report Part Viewer
does not work because IIS 5 does not support Unicode ASP pages. (ADAPT 74648)
 When designing an ASP page for use in mobile devices, use a unique Name for the viewer you
specify (that is, HTMLPartViewer.Name = [a unique name]). (ADAPT 80565)
 Fields in suppressed report sections cannot be viewed in the Report Part Viewer; an error
message will be issued. (ADAPT 80409)
4.6.17. Report Part Viewer (Java)

 You cannot drill down on suppressed sections in this viewer. (ADAPT 73201)
 When setPreserveLayout is true, the Report Part Viewer (using Netscape 4.78) displays all the
fields and records in a single column. (ADAPT 73936)

 The font size displayed in the Java report viewer and Report Part viewer is not always the same as
the size shown in the Report Designer (this is especially true for fonts that include a point value,
such as 10.5). This difference is due to limitations with displaying fonts in HTML. (ADAPT 75030)
 Report Part drill down fails when drilling down on report content that uses the ampersand (&) sign.
(ADAPT 85450)
4.6.18. Report Part Viewer (All)

 The Report Part display is no longer correct after going back to the previous page in both the Java
and COM Report Part Viewers. This happens because multiple Report Parts with conditional
suppressed sections are not fully supported in this version. If you use Back (rather than Previous),
the problem should not occur. (ADAPT 83824)
 Charts, Cross-tab objects, and graphics are not supported as report parts for all wireless devices.
(ADAPT 84838)
4.6.19. Report Viewers

 There are a number of limitations with viewing formatted text objects in the Report Viewers. These
limitations are inherent in HTML. (ADAPT 81073, 81076)
Note: None of the supported Report Viewers can display rotated text properly.
Internet Explorer 5.5:
- Cannot handle text character spacing properly.
- Dashed Line style looks like a dotted line.
- Cannot handle text indentations properly.
Netscape Navigator 4.79
- Cannot handle text character spacing properly.
- All line styles look like a single line.
- Cannot handle text indentations properly.
- Cannot see Tool Tips for text objects.
- Cannot handle line spacing properly.
- Cannot display a Drop Shadow properly.
 Because there is no support for Crystal Enterprise in this version, thin-client report viewers are not
available. However, the thick-client viewers (that is, the Active X Viewer and the Java Applet
viewers) are available.
 The DHTML Viewer will not display a report that contains two OLAP Grid objects from two different
cubes on the same server. (ADAPT 26757)
 When using either the COM or Java page viewers, all parameters are prompted for whether or not
they appear on the report itself. (ADAPT 56994)
 For the COM page viewer, when you want to refresh a report you must put the IReportSource or
ClientDocument in the session (refresh is not a stateless operation). (ADAPT 72674)
 In the Java page viewer, the content type is set only if no writer is supplied (that is, the last
argument to processHttpRequest is null). If a writer is supplied, or if you set ownPage to be false,
you must set the content type. To do this, include the following statement at the beginning of your
jsp: (ADAPT 68375)
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=utf-8" %>

 You can login into reports without entering a user ID and password in all the report viewers. This
issue is By Design because the reports are stateless (that is, they cannot be refreshed). (ADAPT
82712)
 When using WebSphere 3.5 or 4.0.1, loading the viewer with parameter or logon prompting
causes an http 500 error. To resolve this problem, download and install FixPak 4.0.3. Click this link
for more details: IBM WebSphere.
 For some phones, there’s a limit as to how much data you can get back. So, when designing ASP
or JSP pages, you should set the Part Viewer's RecordNumber property to a reasonable number.
By default, the number is 10. However, for the mobile case (especially for WML phones), you may
want to set it to under 5.
Also, note that for mobile devices, there is a limit to the number of viewstates that can be cached
in a session. The current limit is 20, so if you pass 20 pages, the 21st page will overwrite the
oldest page (that is, page 1). (ADAPT 82825)
 The following registry sub-keys may be useful when debugging COM report viewers during
development. Please note that Technical Support cannot provide assistance with problems arising
from accessing the registry.
- CRPE Debugging Information
Key: HKLM\Software\Crystal Decisions\9.0\Crystal Reports\Logging
Name: GenerateEPFDebug
Value Type: DWORD
Values: 1 - on, 0 - off
Default setting if not found: off
- COM Viewer Debugging Information
Key: HKLM\Software\Crystal Decisions\9.0\Report App\Viewer
Name: RenderDebugInfo
Value Type: DWORD
Values: 1 - on, 0 - off
Default setting if not found: off
* Note: Requires "CRPE Debugging Information" be turned on as well.
- COM Viewer Error Information
Name: ErrorInfo
Value Type: String
Values: "disable"/"short"/"long"
Default setting if not found: "short"
- COM Viewer Error Log File
Name: ErrorLogFile
Value Type: String
Values: filename with full path
Default setting if not found: ""
* Note: Error information in the log file is always in long format
 The following parameters may be useful when debugging and configuring Java report viewers
during development. Please note that Technical Support cannot provide assistance with problems
arising from accessing the registry.

Set the parameters in Web.xml located in the "" directory. For example:
<context-param>
<param-name>crystal_image_dir</param-name>
<param-value>c:\temp</param-value>
</context-param>
- Crystal image directory (CrystalImageDirectory)
Parameter name: crystal_image_dir
Parameter value: Full path to the image directory.
Default setting if not found: The temp directory path.
- Crystal image URI (CrystalImageURI)
Parameter name: crystal_image_uri
Parameter value: URI
Default setting if not found: The current value of request.getRequestURI ().
- Do not delete the Crystal image (CrystalImageNoDelete)
Parameter name: crystal_image_no_delete
Parameter value: true/false
Default setting if not found: false
- Enable Crystal logging (CrystalEnableLogging)
Parameter name: crystal_enable_logging
Parameter value: true/false
Default setting if not found: false
- Crystal locale language (CrystalLocaleLanguage)
Parameter name: crystal_locale_language
Parameter value: client locale lowercase two-letter ISO-639 code
Default setting if not found: The current client locale setting.
- Crystal exception information (CrystalExceptionInfo)
Parameter name: crystal_exception_info
Parameter value: disable/short/long
Default setting if not found: short
- Crystal exception log file (CrystalExceptionLogFile)
Parameter name: crystal_exception_log_file
Parameter value: The log file name.
Default setting if not found: ""
- CRPE debugging information (CrystalGenerateEPFDebug)
Parameter name: crystal_generate_epf_debug
Parameter value: 0 (off)/1 (on)
Default setting if not found: 0
 When attaching a ReportClientDocument.ReportSource to the HTML viewer, the logon information
and parameter values need to be set through the HTML viewer. This is because the viewer's view
state overwrites the states in ReportClientDocument; therefore, any logon information and
parameter values set in the ReportClientDocument will be lost.
 The Fixed style for a currency symbol becomes the Floating style when viewing reports in either
the COM or Java viewers. (ADAPT 91889)

 The Netscape ActiveX Plug-In Viewer is not supported in Netscape version 6 or later. (ADAPT
89755)
4.6.20. Sample Reports and Applications

 Applications using the Report Designer Component need to be changed to reference
CRAXDRT9.* rather than CRAXDRT.*.
 Applications using the ActiveX viewer need to be changed to reference a new Class ID:
2DEF4530-8CE6-41c9-84B6-A54536C90213. (ADAPT 54807)
 ASP samples from Crystal Reports 8.5 will not run until all instances of CrystalRuntime.Application
are changed to CrystalRuntime9.Application in all .asp pages. (ADAPT 54489)
 RDC ASP samples: "Java using browser JVM" viewer doesn't work with Netscape 6.2 and IE 6.0.
(ADAPT 90758)
 RDC ASP samples: for the HTML viewer to display buttons, the you must either create a virtual
folder called "viewer" to point to the location where the samples are situated (C:\Program
Files\Crystal Decisions\Crystal Reports 9\Samples\En\Code\Web\Report Designer Component).
Or, if this virtual directory exists and points to another location, point to the folder C:\Program
Files\Crystal Decisions\Crystal Reports 9\Samples\En\Code\Web\Report Designer
Component\images and copy its contents to that location. (ADAPT 91780)
4.6.21. Web Report Design Wizard

 In the COM version of the Report Creation Wizard, when you use invalid characters when saving a
report (for example: \/:*?"<>|), an error message occurs, but the file is saved with no name. This
generates an additional error if you launch the wizard again and try to open the folder containing
the incorrectly named report. (ADAPT 80017)
 If you select a report that contains Template Field Objects as your data source in the Web Report
Design Wizard, the report will fail on the “Choose the information to display” page. (ADAPT 84451)
 If you use an existing report as the source for database tables and table links, AddLink will fail if
the link in rptDataSource is using some advanced link type (new to Crystal Reports 9).
4.7. New Functionality and Known Issues
4.7.1. General Designer Issues

 The length limitation of 254 characters for string fields has been removed in all new DLLs. The
new DLLs support up to 64K characters. (ADAPT 21840)
 In some cases, you cannot use the delete key to remove a group from the Report Explorer or the
Design tab. You can delete such groups using the right-click menu option. (ADAPT 57705)
4.7.2. Add-ins
 Crystal Report Wizard 9 doesn't work properly for Excel when CR 8.5 and CR 9 are installed side
by side. This problem occurs for reports created in the version 9 wizard before CR 8.5 is installed.
In this case, the report becomes associated with the 8.5 version of CRW32.exe and the ActiveX
Viewer can no longer recognize it as a version 9 report. (ADAPT 66870)
4.7.3. Charting
 The Edit Axis menu option is now available only when you are working on the Preview tab.
(ADAPT 44346)
 The Auto-Arrange option doesn’t work properly with 3D charts; only the chart title is considered
when the option is selected. (ADAPT 21621)

 Gauge charts should be designed so that no more than 13 gauges are displayed, otherwise the
results are not reliable. (ADAPT 57402)
 In some cases, using a percentage summary in an Advanced Chart or Map type causes a GPF.
(ADAPT 71339)
 A chart’s conditional formatting may be wrong when refreshing reports from previous versions of
Crystal Reports. The problem is that the field value type of any new summary fields will be
changed to match the current database type, while the ChartHighlightingItem object will still hold
the original value type. (ADAPT 88923)
4.7.4. Commands
 In some rare cases, selecting a BLOB (Binary Large Object) field in a SQL statement can cause
records to be missing from the returned data set. This has been identified as an MS ODBC driver
error. (ADAPT 49853, 54653)
 Certain valid SQL commands cannot be used in a SQL Server ODBC connection due to limitations
in SQL Server with the order of numeric and BLOB fields. (ADAPT 85339)
 Some combinations of data types are not supported in the "Add command" feature. To get the
best results when combining and ordering data types, follow these guidelines:
- Put BLOB and CLOB (Character Large Object) fields at the end.
- Do not to use Decimal or Numeric fields with BLOB or CLOB field in the same rowset.
 When you choose to use a table based on the Crystal Reports “Add Command” feature or a
Command from Crystal Repository, Crystal Reports will not alter the syntax of the SQL submitted
to the server. Crystal Reports doesn't parse a command; it passes it to the data source and works
with the rowset that is returned. Because Commands can be as complex as the author desires and
need not be restricted to SQL, Crystal Reports cannot know whether quoting or escape characters
are needed at any point.
This caveat also holds for parameters inserted into the Command since, once again, Crystal
Reports does not have any knowledge of how that parameter is used in the command.
- For example: select * from orders {?param1} In this case, you should not quote the
parameter.
- Alternatively: select * from orders where name = {?param1} In this case, param1 should be
quoted.
(ADAPT 66156, 75783, 91174, 91179)
 Parameters created with the "add command" and renamed through the Field Explorer aren't
renamed properly in the report’s SQL query. (ADAPT 66432)
 When using the Set Location option for a SQL command or a Stored Procedure that contains
parameters, you are not prompted to select parameters before the new fields are fetched. (ADAPT
87445)
 The input parameters your reports prompt for may not be correct if you change the number or
order of parameters in your SQL command. (ADAPT 88986)
 When adding a command with a parameter to a report, the check box for a null value is not
displayed. When refreshing the report and choosing a new parameter value, the check box is
created and can pass null values. As well, it is not possible to pass null values to multiple
parameters. (ADAPT 90341, 90351)
 You cannot add a command whose SQL statement contains a time parameter (date/time
parameters are allowed, however). (ADAPT 90287)

 After modifying a Command in the Crystal Repository, the query isn't displayed correctly in the
Modify Command dialog box. When viewing the query, the program is displaying the last state that
it was in prior to the modification. The modification has, however, been saved. (ADAPT 91365)
 If a Command in the Crystal Repository has invalid SQL, it cannot be disconnected and edited. To
fix the Command, recreate it in a new report and then add it to the repository in place of the old
one. To recreate the Command, you can cut and paste it from the old Command and then edit the
new one. (ADAPT 91876)
4.7.5. Cross-Tabs
 When you use percentage values in Cross-Tabs, the decimal values of the percentage numbers
are not displayed. As a result, adding the actual cell values won't always total to the value shown
in the Cross-Tab’s total column. The problem is found when using Count and Distinct functions.
(ADAPT 75168)
4.7.6. Custom Functions

 The custom functions included with this version of Crystal Reports are intended as samples. You
can change or modify them as necessary. For example, the custom function called
"cdConvertUSToCanadian" will have to be updated with a correct exchange rate if you intend to
use it. (ADAPT 64714)
 If a custom function has not been added to the current report, and you look at the text of its
repository copy, the custom function name keywords are not displayed in blue. (If the custom
function is imported, the name does appear in blue.) (ADAPT 68566)
 A custom function cannot be called if its name conflicts with a formula variable. The name of a
custom function is a reserved word, like the names of the built-in Crystal Report functions. (ADAPT
74570)
4.7.7. Dictionaries
 When you create a report based on a dictionary with linked tables, and then add a table from
another data source, you cannot create links between tables within the dictionary and the new
table if that table is inserted between the dictionary’s tables. For example, suppose you have a
dictionary that includes the linked tables A and B. If you add table C from another data source and
arrange them in the following order: A, C, B. The pseudo-link between A and B is broken and no
new link can be created. (ADAPT 65779)
 Sample data is no longer displayed when opening a report based on a Dictionary if the report does
not have saved data. (ADAPT 52340)
 To use a *.dct file, open the file in Crystal Dictionary and save it as a .dc5 file first. (ADAPT 82764)
4.7.8. Exporting
 If you export a Cross-Tab object that has more than 255 columns, columns after the 255th column
will not be included. This is an Excel limitation; Excel can handle only up to 255 columns. (ADAPT
23539)
 When exporting large reports to Excel, your export will complete, but Excel takes a long time to
render the report. (ADAPT 73337)
 If you export to ODBC, it is recommended that you upgrade to MDAC 2.7. Your machine has to be
rebooted after the MDAC installation. (ADAPT 73659)
 In Excel, page-based exporting allows for Page Range selection, but record-based does not. This
behavior is by design. (ADAPT 68340)
 Exporting to MS Word or RTF may require you to resize time fields before or after you export. This
is a limitation with the way Word displays output text. (ADAPT 16650)

 The Send To options found on the File menu will not work until you reboot your system after
installing Crystal Reports. (ADAPT 75066)
 In Windows 98 (Second Edition), exporting old reports that contain maps to PDF and MS Word
fails under certain conditions. To work around this issue, save the old report as a new version
report before exporting. (ADAPT 80603)
 Because Excel does not support dates before 1900, exporting such dates in Crystal Reports will
yield unpredictable results. (ADAPT 79758)
4.7.9. Formula Language

 In fixing a problem with the Crystal Syntax "select-case-default" statement, which could manifest
itself when the select expression was not the last expression in a formula or was not a top level
expression, some reports that seemed to work in the past might now fail (in reality, these reports
worked only by chance in previous versions).
Another possible manifestation of this problem occurs with some Crystal Syntax formulas that use
the Select expression (this is not a problem in Basic syntax). If you get a "The remaining text does
not appear to be part of the formula" error when opening a report in Crystal Reports, delete any
token following the Select expression (in many cases, this is a semicolon). (ADAPT 11492, 32099)
 If you are using formulas created in Crystal Reports 8.5 or earlier, be aware that there are new
reserved words in the formula language. If you have variables that have the same name as any of
the new reserved words, your formulas will not work. You must rename your variables.
4.7.10. Formula Workshop

 The Value field in the Function Arguments area of the Formula Expert can hold a maximum of
30,000 characters. (ADAPT 48955)
 The toolbars in the Formula Editor and the Workshop Tree cannot be undocked and moved in
Crystal Reports 9. (ADAPT 54866)
4.7.11. Group Tree

 For reports with a very large number of groups, the group tree displays only approximately 64K of
all the group names. (ADAPT 45713)
4.7.12. Hyperlinks
 The Hyperlink option has been removed from the Insert menu. To insert a hyperlink on an entire
report, choose the A File option on the Hyperlink tab of the Format Editor. (ADAPT 58155)
4.7.13. OLAP
 Great performance improvements have been made in OLAP reporting. In some cases tested by
Crystal Decisions, improvements are greater than 98%.
 The OLAP worksheet enhancements in this version of Crystal Reports brings the Report Designer
in line with the worksheet functionality of Crystal Analysis Pro. However, it should be noted that the
two worksheets do not have identical functionality—some small differences may be seen if you are
experienced with CA Pro. (ADAPT 57315, 57318, 57321, 57323)
 OLAP reports created in version 6 cannot be opened. (ADAPT 27238)
 OLAP reports created in previous versions of Crystal Reports automatically hit the cube when
opened if they include charts and/or maps. (ADAPT 49964)
 If you have more than one OLAP grid in your report, only the first grid will display changes made
when reentering the OLAP Wizard regardless of which grid has the focus. (ADAPT 32956)

 Reports that contain OLAP grids in subreports will now have their data saved. This enhancement
resolves viewing errors for Crystal Reports 9. However, the errors will persist when trying to view
reports from older versions of Crystal Reports (ADAPT 73542)
 References to OLAP parameter fields are lost when you rename the parameter in the Field
Explorer. (ADAPT 81535)
 Connect to your OLAP cube before refreshing report data if your report was created in a previous
version of Crystal Reports using MSOLAP7 and if you upgraded to MSOLAP8 some time after.
(ADAPT 81843)
 Drill-down, reorder, add Calculated Member, and filter options are disabled until you refresh OLAP
reports created in a previous version of Crystal Reports. (ADAPT 81090)
 The Crystal Reports Online Help lists the MDX functions (along with their syntax blocks) that are
available to you when you write your own calculated members. The information currently provided
constitutes a reference section, and not an in-depth tutorial. These are some examples of common
calculations that can be performed with MDX functions:
- To calculate the sum of all products on the products dimension, place this calculation on the
products dimension:
sum ( Members ( { Products } ) )
- To calculate the average weekly sales, place this calculation on the weekly dimension:
avg ( Members ( {Weekly} ) )
- To calculate the number of members on the weekly dimension that are greater than 1000, add
this calculation to the weekly dimension:
count ( filter ( Members ( { Weekly } ) , Current() > 1000 ) )
- To give the rank of the budget based on each week, place this calculation on the measures
dimension (with the weekly dimension on the other axis):
Rank ( Array ( CurrentMember( { Weekly } ) ) , Order ( AllMembers ( Level ( CurrentMember (
{ Weekly } ) ) ) , {Measure@'Budget'} , ASC ) )
This calculation can be applied to any member / dimension by changing the dimension Weekly
and/or the member Measure@'Budget'
- To calculate the average / standard deviation / variance of all the members on the row axis,
use the corresponding calculation:
avg ( stripcalculatedmembers ( Axis ( 1 ) ) , Current() )
stdev ( stripcalculatedmembers ( Axis ( 1 ) ) , Current() )
var ( stripcalculatedmembers ( Axis ( 1 ) ) , Current() )
 Charts and Maps lose their zoom view settings when you perform any OLAP grid-altering action
(pivoting / sorting / filtering / calculated member / reorder members). (ADAPT 12132)
 If members are selected or deleted through the Member Selector for a page dimension, the colors
and the font sizes of the applied style are reverted to defaults, and the lines of the grid are left
unchanged. (ADAPT 12175)
 An OLAP grid with a calculated member cannot be collapsed after being expanded. (ADAPT
10514)
 Making a connection to a data source using your enterprise logon will cause a permissions
problem when creating a report with paged dimensions. If users other than the creator of the report
wants to use it, they must use their enterprise account to log on to the data source. (ADAPT
85215)

 On Windows Me, when connecting to an Essbase server for OLAP reporting, a direct connect will
fail intermittently unless the same version of the Essbase client is installed on the local machine
and the server. (ADAPT 82167)
 In a default installation of .NET, if an MS OLAP report is created on a different server (not your
local server), when refreshing the report in the .NET Webform viewer, you will get unhandled
exception errors.
To solve this problem, do the following:
- In the "machine.config" file (found at C:\Winnt\microsoft.net\framework\v1.0.3521\config),
change userName="Machine" to userName="System" in the <processModel ....> line.
- Run iisreset at the command line.
(ADAPT 89570)
 Making a connection to a data source using an Enterprise logon causes permissions problems
when creating a report with paged dimensions. If users other than the creator of the report want to
use it, they will have to use their Enterprise accounts to log on to the data source. (ADAPT 85216)
4.7.14. Parameters
 The Hebrew calendar is not supported for date parameters. (ADAPT 68972, 68982)
4.7.15. Report Bursting

 Fields that are included in formulas are not added the Report Bursting Index when you select the
Auto button. (ADAPT 68169)
4.7.16. Report Navigation

 It is highly recommended that all reports navigated to and from reside in the default RAS report
directory. This will ensure that the linked reports can be easily migrated to a Crystal Enterprise
environment.
4.7.17. Report Parts

 Cross-Tab and Grid objects may work in the Report Part Viewer and other DHTML viewers, but
they are not supported in this release of Crystal Reports (that is, you may get unexpected results
depending on the size of the Cross-Tab or OLAP Grid and the device you are using to view them).
(ADAPT 65989)
 You cannot view large memo fields fully in the Report Part Viewer. Design Report Parts so that
memo fields do not span more than one page in the viewer. (ADAPT 62183)
 Copying and pasting a data context for your Initial Report Part Settings (Options dialog box) may
not provide the exact result you require. Check the result of your cut and paste and edit
accordingly. (ADAPT 70708)
 Very large Cross-Tab objects (several pages long), will shut down the web server after the Report
Part Viewer fills its memory. (ADAPT 73616)
 You cannot paste a string into the Initial Report Part Settings area of the Report Options dialog
box (you can, however, paste a report object). This behavior is by design. (ADAPT 75215, 85351)
4.7.18. Repository
 Four database types are supported for the COM version of the Crystal Repository: Access, SQL
Server, DB2, and Oracle. All databases have to support Unicode.
 Spaces are not allowed in repository data source names (DSNs). (ADAPT 94191)

 File-level security on an Access database may not provide the desired results. If you want to
secure your repository database, it is suggested that you use one of the other supported database
types. (ADAPT 85967)
 The following conditions have to be met when using DB2 or Oracle as your repository’s database:
(ADAPT 85009)
- DB2
 Client at least of version 7.2.
 Server-side database must be configured to UTF-8 encoding.
- Oracle
 Server side Database must be version 9i.
 Client can be DataDirect Wire Protocol ODBC driver version 4 or newer only for Oracle
Server running on Solaris.
 Client can be ORACLE version 8 or 9 ODBC drivers for Oracle Server running both on
Solaris and NT.
 Custom functions can be saved to the SampleRepository.mdb even though it is otherwise read-
only. This behavior is By Design. (ADAPT 60559)
 When you rename a repository folder or object to something containing an invalid character, the
error message does not appear until you try to add another object to the repository by dragging
and dropping. (ADAPT 75082)
 To use Unicode object titles in your Crystal Repository, the repository database must be set up to
support Unicode data. (ADAPT 92446)
4.7.19. Smart Tags

 Copying a field that contains more than one line and pasting it into a Windows XP document (while
using the Smart Tag feature) does not maintain line formatting. (ADAPT 65252)
 If you resize a chart or if you modify the content of the Smart Tag text, the tag used by Crystal
Reports is lost. To alleviate this problem, resize the chart first before you copy and paste into
Windows XP. (ADAPT 62332)
 Smart Tag refresh supports only reports with one database logon. If the report has more than one
database that requires logon, the User ID and the Password must be the same for all the
databases. (ADAPT 88368)
 Copying and pasting Smart Tag information converts upper case to lower-case for the web server,
virtual directory and page names. (ADAPT 94177)
4.7.20. Templates
 The templates included with Crystal Reports 9 are intended as samples to provide you with
guidelines for creating your own templates. As such, not every template includes every kind of field
available. This might become an issue when applying the supplied templates. For example,
because the High Contrast template doesn’t include a summary field, applying it to a report
containing a chart will cause the chart to be lost. (If you apply a sample template that includes a
summary field, the chart will be retained.)
 Currently, there is only a Number tab in the Format Editor for use with Template Field Objects. If
you set any currency options on this tab, all number fields have the same format applied. (ADAPT
72872)

 You cannot apply a template to a subreport. To work around this limitation, you could create a
separate report, apply a template, and then import that report as a subreport into the main report.
(ADAPT 75202)
 You cannot apply a template to a report that contains an SQL Expression. (ADAPT 85923)
 Gantt charts are not supported as template objects.
 You cannot apply a template to a report if the report has a summary whose operation is
Correlation With, Covariance With, Nth Largest, Nth Smallest, Nth Most Frequent, or P Percentile.
(ADAPT 93750)
 If the global formula syntax is set to "Basic Syntax," the default template field object formulas won’t
compile (the default template field objects are written in Crystal Syntax). (ADAPT 94399)
4.7.21. Text Objects

 When you are editing a text object, you must click outside the text frame to commit your changes
to the report file. If you save the report without exiting the text editor, or if you change to a different
view, your changes will not be saved. (ADAPT 86120)
4.7.22. Tool Tips

 Tool tips are not displayed when toolbars are undocked. (ADAPT 39793)
4.7.23. Web Report Design Wizard

 If you save a report before visiting the Style page in this wizard, the report formatting may not be
suitable to you. Use a style or template to correct this formatting problem. (ADAPT 68153)
 You cannot open reports based on SQL Command tables in the Report Creation Wizard. (ADAPT
70514)
 Adding a filter for a SQL Expression field is not supported in the Report Creation Wizard. (ADAPT
70273)
 When you preview a new report that is based on a report with parameters and saved data, the
preview fails. (ADAPT 87426)
5. Language Version Issues
5.1. General
 Because of the Unicode support included in this version of Crystal Reports, language versions of
reports created in Crystal Reports 8.5 should be opened on the same platform they were last
saved on (that is, the system locale must be the same as it was when the report was last saved).
(ADAPT 52431)
 In general, when designing reports to be used in locales different from the one they are created in,
it is recommended that you use fonts appropriate to the language (the script) of the string data in
the report. Relying on font substitution can result in unpredictable results, especially in a Windows
9x environment. (ADAPT 80090)
 The group tree doesn't maintain the date format after changing your system locale and reopening
the report. This is a one-time problem that occurs only after changing locale; refreshing your report
resolves the issue. (ADAPT 84067, 84070)
 Crystal Reports 9, Crystal Analysis Professional 9 and Holos use the same resources for Charting
and Mapping. Because of differences in the localized versions of these products, you will see
differences for Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Italian content depending on whether or not CR9
is installed on the same machine as CAP9 or Holos:

- If localized versions of CR9 are installed for SCH, ES or IT and CAP9 is subsequently
installed, the Charting and Mapping modules will be localized.
- If only CAP9 or Holos are installed (or if CAP9 or Holos are installed before CR9), the Charting
& Mapping will appear in English.
5.2. Add-ins
5.2.1. Crystal Report Wizard 9

 Crystal Report Wizard 9 does not work with Office 97 for Excel on Chinese operating systems.
(ADAPT 67080)
5.3. Data Access
5.3.1. Sybase
 The Sybase native driver for French operating systems can't add a table name that includes
spaces. (ADAPT 66445)
5.4. Developer
5.4.1. Report Designer Component (RDC)

 If you create a report on a Japanese OS and use Japanese characters in its object names, the
report will make the RDC fail when opened on a machine with an incorrect locale setting. If the
object names are changed to English, or if the system’s default locale is Japanese, the problem
won’t occur. (ADAPT 89476)
5.4.2. Report Page Viewer (Java)

 To ensure all groups display in localized reports, add the following code to the web.xml servlet file
for Web Logic:
<context-param>
<param-name>weblogic.httpd.inputCharset./*</param-name>
<param-value>iso-8859-1</param-value>
</context-param>
5.5. Documentation
5.5.1. Legacy Help

 In the Japanese developer help, look for the most recent RDC SDK information in the
CrystalDevHelp.chm and not the Legacy.chm.
5.5.2. Report Application Server Java SDK

 You can find an addendum to the Japanese version of the Java developer documentation on the
Report Application Server 9 installation CD in the DOC folder.
5.6. Report Designer
5.6.1. Chart Templates

 Applying a template to a chart overwrites the chart’s font property setting on Japanese operating
systems. When you apply a template to a chart the font setting is taken from the template file, so
to alleviate the problem, ensure the proper font is used in the chart template. (ADAPT 23895)

5.6.2. Formula Editor
 The Formula Editor does not recognize a comma as a decimal place delimiter; you must use a
period. (ADAPT 69237)
5.6.3. Mapping
 Under certain Windows Regional Language Settings, Web Component Server (WCS) viewing of
reports containing Map objects is not supported. (ADAPT 23665)
 When creating new reports that include map objects, you should use an ODBC connection to the
report’s data source. (When using a direct connection to the data source, you may encounter an
“Unable to create map layer” error message. Also, map objects in any subsequent new report—
created in the same report designer session—may not be displayed correctly.) (ADAPT 52936)
5.6.4. OLAP
 Using a Holos cube on a French Windows 98 operating system is not supported for this version of
Crystal Reports. (ADAPT 85291)
5.6.5. Parameters
 Versions of comctl32.dll earlier than 5.x cause problems with using Japanese calendar years (the
year defaults to 1754 when trying to increment or decrement the year in the Emperor calendar).
(ADAPT 25500)
 For all language versions, only the English word "Password" is accepted as a password in the Edit
Mask. When you load a non-English report, if the mask value means "Password" in the specific
language (for example, "Kennwort" in German), the value will be translated to the English word
"Password" automatically. Once the report is saved in version 9, the new mask value "Password"
will replace the old one. (ADAPT 62350)
5.6.6. Repository
 If your repository is not configured properly for languages, some users may see garbage
characters instead of the intended text. If you intend to set up a SQL repository and have your
users define more than English as an input locale, you need to manually uncheck the "Perform
translation for character data" flag when configuring the data source (the DSN checks this flag by
default).
5.7. Report Viewers

 When viewed in the COM viewers, charts and/or maps don't pick up the regional settings of the
operating system or browser. (ADAPT 80740)
 In all report viewers, currency symbols change based on the browser’s locale settings. Whereas
this behavior is normally correct, it may not be correct for currency symbols. To ensure your
currency symbol does not change based on locale, use the CDbl function in the Formula Editor to
convert your currency value to a number value. Then, for example, if you want a field that shows $
plus formatting from the locale setting, you can use the formula:
'$' + CStr (CDbl ({Orders.Order Amount}))
(ADAPT 82426)
 Searching in a Crystal Report Viewer does not work with Japanese data. (ADAPT 85113) You can
work around this problem by adding the following Latin-1 character set in the web.xml file:
<context-param>
<param-name>weblogic.httpd.inputCharset./*</param-name>
<param-value>iso-8859-1</param-value>

</context-param>
6. Retired Features
The following features are no longer supported.
6.1. Backward Compatibility

 Backward compatibility with older versions of Crystal Reports is no longer available due to the
implementation of Unicode in version 9.
6.2. Compiled Reports

 This feature is not supported in Crystal Reports 9. The download available on the Tech Support
web site is supported only in the Developer Editions of Crystal Reports 8 and 8.5.
6.3. Export DLLs

 The following export DLLs are no longer supported:
- U2fdif – Data Interchange Format.
- U2fwks – Lotus 123 (was not supported in Crystal Reports 8.5).
 The MBCS export DLLs are no longer supported. Supported DLLs will be updated to use the new
interface. Old DLLs will not work with the new version of Crystal Reports. This change will affect
users who have customized their own DLLs.
6.4. Developer APIs

 Automation Server (cpeaut32.dll), OCX (crystl32.ocx), RDC Runtime C headers are no longer
supported.
 MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) support for CRPE API (peplus.h and peplus.cpp) is no longer
supported. (ADAPT 81804)
6.5. Database DLLs

 The following database DLLs are no longer supported:
- Bound database (p2bbnd.dll).
- Centura SQLBase (Gupta).
- Essbase (p2oesbse.dll).
6.6. Report Creation Wizards

 The Report Creation Wizards are no longer re-entrant.
6.7. Report Designer Functionality

 “Insert Summary for all groups” has been removed from the shortcut menu; instead, choose the
“Inset Summary” option.
7. Issues Resolved in Crystal Reports 9

The following table summarizes some of the issues resolved in Crystal Reports 9. This list consists of
highlights and is not exhaustive.

Functional Area Description Identification #
The member nTriggeredInstances in PEReportAlertInfo
Alerting ADAPT 25859
now returns the correct value.

The program no longer fails when clicking the Preview
Alerting tab and then the Alerting tab after a summary field has ADAPT 30083
been created in a subreport.
Alert conditions based on string field longer than 255
Alerting ADAPT 30153
characters will now be triggered correctly.
You can now change legend names in graphs. As well,
Charting ADAPT 13986
you can edit the X-axis label.
Charting You can now delete user-defined templates for charts. ADAPT 20937
Saving your chart as a user-defined template has been
re-introduced.
You can now choose a file name and a location when
saving a chart as a template.
The Gantt chart format has been added to Crystal
Reports.
The color of a chart’s bars can be changed by right-
Charting clicking the chart and selecting the color mode on the ADAPT 30131
Look tab of the Chart Options.
Previous version reports with charts that contain only
Charting one legend item no longer gain color when opened in ADAPT 30174
Crystal Reports.
Charts can no longer be copied to the page header,
page footer, or details sections.
You can delete chart annotations created in previous
versions of Crystal Reports.
The default settings for a new chart will now be
consistent when using the Chart Expert.
Moving a chart that shows a percentage of a summary
Charting TRACK 30010
from group level to group level now works correctly.
You now have the option to show a chart with one series
Charting TRACK 31040
as a series or as a group.
Charting You can now do top percentages in advanced charts. TRACK 43610
Charting Bi-directional text is now supported in charts. TRACK 48601
Cross-tab Labels are now available for summarized fields. ADAPT 16172
Crystal Reports now handles multiple cross-tab objects
Cross-tab so that its mapping list is updated correctly when new ADAPT 22730
cross-tabs are added, moved, or deleted.
An error message now appears if your cross-tab report
Cross-tab ADAPT 26906
exceeds the limit of 65,535 rows or columns.
Percentage summaries can now be used in a cross-
Cross-tabs ADAPT 25465
tabs.

The Crystal Reports 8.5 patch has been corrected to
ADAPT 47247
Cross-Tabs allow the suppressing of grand totals in cross-tab
EID 1458142
reports.
In Japanese Crystal Reports, double-byte characters ADAPT 10815
Data Access
can now be used in the Alias Name dialog box. EID 1600
Numerous data access issues have been resolved by
Data Access the inclusion of a new database manager, called the ADAPT 13151
Query Engine, in this release of Crystal Reports.
The SQL query generated by a report no longer includes
Data Access tables that are not used in the report. This improves ADAPT 13422
processing speed.
For multiple Access databases requiring database
Data Access passwords, the database prompted for is now displayed ADAPT 13676
in the logon dialog box.
Canceling logon to an Access database with password
Data Access ADAPT 13705
protection has been made easier to use.
Access Boolean fields now register in Crystal Reports
are True or False (not 0 or 1).
The new ODBC driver (crdb_odbc.dll) can obtain the
index information for a table.
The new crdb_dao.dll corrects several errors with
incorrect data being returned.
With multiple SQL data source reports, the linking
Data Access configurations that won't work are no longer displayed ADAPT 14364
as options.
Refreshing the data for a report that contains a
Data Access subreport based on a table that has been deleted from ADAPT 14431
the database now produces a meaningful error.
Stored procedures are now supported using the Oracle
ODBC driver.
You can now create an ODBC report off an Access
query where two tables have same field name.
Entering an incorrect logon parameter for LogOnServer
Data Access now gives the correct error (28000 “Invalid Authorization ADAPT 14726
Specification”).
You are prompted only once for an Access password;
this connection is used for an entire session.
Crystal Reports now retains tabs that are part of a value
in the database.
Changes in the DAO for accessing external databases
have been re-introduced.
Access parameterized queries are no longer listed in
SQL tables when stored procedures are not selected.
Data Access When “stored procedures” is selected in the Options ADAPT 15129

dialog box (SQL tab), Access parameterized queries are
now shown only once.
The “one of” option in Select Expert no longer returns
incorrect data from date/time fields.
Double quotes are now placed around user names in
fully qualified table names.
Connecting to Oracle using a native driver and reporting
on a stored procedure synonym now works correctly.
An Informix table as the second table in a cross-linked
report now returns proper data.
Reporting off two unrelated tables (no linking between
Data Access the tables) is handled better in the new database ADAPT 16375
manager design introduced in this version.
The Database Log On prompt is no longer displayed
when selecting the Database menu.
When reporting off on a timestamp field, data will no
longer be trimmed.
Data Access Selection now works for timestamp fields. ADAPT 16988
Handling of unionized SQL queries has been enhanced
in this version of Crystal Reports.
The ODBC driver has been redesigned to better deal
with float fields.
The new ODBC driver fetches field information for a
table more efficiently than past drivers could.
Cross-linking three or more tables from two data
sources now returns data correctly.
Using ODBC to create a report based on a table with
leading numbers now returns data correctly.
The Database Error dialog box now contains a correct
Data Access error message when a table no longer exists in the ADAPT 18496
database.
Using ODBC, drilling down on a money field no longer
Data Access returns a blank report when the “GroupBy on Server” ADAPT 18520
option is selected.
The equal to filter now works with a parameter prompt
based on a smalldatetime data type.
Data Access You can now browse any field type except Memo. ADAPT 19167
Data is now returned when filters are applied to Sybase
money data types with negative values.
Reporting on Access date/time fields with dates older
than the year 1600 now works correctly.
Data Access Using ODBC, double quotes within a table name are ADAPT 19388
now handled correctly when the SQL statement is

created (consecutive double quotes are now created as
necessary).
Data Access Sybase via ODBC now allows NULL parameter in SPs. ADAPT 19440
Data Access You can no longer change servers in Crystal Reports. ADAPT 19482
The order of operation has been modified so a database
Data Access connection cannot be closed before Crystal Reports is ADAPT 19534
closed.
The Oracle native driver had been redesigned. You can
Data Access now browse BLOB, CLOB, NCLOB, and bfile fields in ADAPT 19620
Oracle without getting a database error.
The new ODBC driver behaves consistently between
Crystal Reports and the CRPE.
Crystal Reports no longer fails when canceling Set
Location and then refreshing the report’s data.
Converting database drivers is no longer supported in
Data Access Crystal Reports. It has been replaced by the more ADAPT 21715
robust Set Datasource Location feature.
You can now set location from a table to a stored
procedure or vice versa.
The “verify on every print” option has been replaced by
Data Access a number of more specific options. See the Options ADAPT 22066
dialog box for more information.
A Logon dialog box no longer appears for every table in
a database-level secured Access database.
The Show option on the Database tab of the Options
Data Access dialog box now works for System Tables for all database ADAPT 22127
types that support system tables.
You can now report off DB2 procedures that contain a
DOUBLE parameter.
The Database Expert now displays all queries available
when using a native DLL.
The SQL Server native driver is no longer supported in
Crystal Reports.
The program no longer fails if you attempt to log on to a
Data Access dead ODBC data source through the ODBC (ADO) ADAPT 23082
connection.
Creating a report based on a saved Crystal Query with
duplicate field names now shows the correct data.
A Lotus Notes table that contains a “.” in its name, can
now be added to a report.
Error handling for messages received from database
Data Access DLLs has been improved (the actual database error ADAPT 23537
message is no shown).

The crdb_dao.dll driver now pushes links to the Jet
driver for DAO access.
The program no longer fails to connect to the database
when location is set through OLEDB.
Connecting to a corrupt database file will no loner cause
Crystal Reports to fail; an error message will be issued.
You can now change the default table alias for ADO
connections to table name.
The new ODBC driver allows Access table names
containing spaces to be accessed over a network.
Field length in Access 2000 is now correctly interpreted
in characters.
Selecting an ODBC ADO connection, saving the report,
Data Access reopening, and refreshing the data no longer prompts ADAPT 28188
for the incorrect data connection type.
COM Object Character Fields over 255 characters are
no longer truncated.
Using ODBC Sybase, the Select Expert no longer
Data Access shows memo and graphic fields when you create a ADAPT 43573
selection formula.
It is now possible to launch a different query tool when
ADAPT 47325
Data Access clicking the Build SQL button (MS Query is no longer
EID 1798
launched by default).
SQL stored procedures are shown by default for the
rasoledbprovider.dll.
The Access ODBC driver now prompts for log on to
password protected Access databases.
For Lotus Notes, support has been added for long
memo fields.
Crystal Reports now supports linking using indexes in
xBASE.
Rowsets for Oracle type Nclob can now be opened
properly.
Fetching rowsets now works properly for SQL Server
sources.
The “Perform Query Asynchronously” option no longer
causes random numbers of records to be retrieved.
Crystal Reports no longer adds a “Location” parameter ADAPT46964
Data Access
in an OLEDB connect string. EID 1795
When using the Informix native driver, you can now
Data Access TRACK 29801
report off tables from multiple connections.
Data Access You will now be prompted for logon information from TRACK 47732
both databases in a report with a subreport that uses

OLEDB for SQL Server to access different databases on
the same server.
Partial text linking is no longer done when linking two
forms on the server using p2snote.dll.
Record selection on a secondary index that includes a
Data Access date-time field will now use the index when using TRACK 48173
p2bbde.dll.
P2smon.dll can now handle Byte parameters in COM
Objects.
When selecting a COM Object that includes a Visual
Data Access Basic Date parameter (using p2smon.dll), date-time TRACK 49036
fields will now be handled properly.
The program no longer treats ADO adDate and
adDBDate data types as date-time.
Time fields from COM Objects will now display data
when using p2smon.dll.
Currency fields from COM Objects will now display data
SmallInt fields from COM Objects will now display data
TinyInt fields from COM Objects will now display data
BigInt fields from COM Objects will now display values
other than 0 when using p2smon.dll.
The correct data will be returned when consuming a
Data Access (.NET) report with comments in the selection formula through a ADAPT 42796
web service.
The Log Off option will no longer uncheck the server
Data Explorer ADAPT 22639
when logoff does not occur.
An ampersand character (&) in a Data Source Name
Database Expert ADAPT 16497
(DSN) will now be recognized correctly.
When a report is based on tables from different data
Database Expert sources, all tables are now listed under the correct data ADAPT 18270
source.
The ODBC folder in the Database Expert is now
displayed only if you have crdb_odbc.dll installed.
Database Expert The Database Expert is auto-refreshing when it opens. ADAPT 20270
All folders in the Database Expert now have the ability to
detect current connections.
You can now remove database files under the Selected
Tables node in the Database Expert.
Database Expert For Lotus Notes, databases saved to the favorites lists ADAPT 24317
in the Database Expert will no longer prompt for

repeated logins.
A problem with expanding data source folders has been
corrected.
A right-click option has been added to the Database
Expert tree to launch the database options.
You can now disable the event.log file CRPE32.dll ADAPT 12370
Developer
creates when an error occurs. EID 1906
The correct total number of page will now be shown in ADAPT 43204
Developer
the report preview when using Crpe32.dll. EID 1741
A new member for setting characters per inch has been ADAPT 47213
Developer
added to U2ftext.dll. EID 1804
The name property of the CRfield (EventInfo) will no ADAPT 8671
Developer
longer return “Text” for all string field values. EID 1883
You can now use the Set Width property for OLE Object
Developer (.NET) ADAPT 25284
in the .NET RDC.
You can now refresh WebService reports when a record
is added to the database.
The Web viewer has been made consistent with the
Windows viewer in its use of the Add method.
Repeated logons to a ServerFileReport in a Windows
application now prompts for logon information correctly.
.Net now supports GetInitialReportPart and
NavigateToReportPart.
The ActiveX Viewer Event has been fixed to support drill
down or “go to next page” when using CRAXDRT.
The RDC no longer fails if you add or remove a
database while a text object is in edit mode.
Viewers now prompt for all parameter values when
some are set in code.
Binding a CrystalReportViewer (webform) to an untyped
Developer (.NET) reportDocument no longer prevents future alternate ADAPT 75604
databinding.
Developer (RAS TableLinks now supports Join type and Link type.
ADAPT 60259
COM)
Developer (RAS A script language setting has been added to the
ADAPT 68816
COM) ISCRConditionFormula object.
Developer (RAS Exporting has been exposed in the RAS Java SDK.
ADAPT 72324
Java)
Developer (RAS ReportDataProvider now treats both folder path and
ADAPT 73094
Java) report path as local to the current machine.
Developer (RAS GetTriggerAlerts has been exposed in the search
ADAPT 81217
Java) controller.

Developer (RAS Export to text and CSV is supported.
ADAPT 81546
Java)
The “The summary field calculates” label has been
Developer (RDC) ADAPT 25357
added back to the Change Summary dialog box.
You can no longer drag a summary field into the details
section.
A correct error message now appears if the
Developer (RDC) SortDirection of a group is changed to crSpecifiedOrder ADAPT 25477
without setting .SpecifedOrder.
To correct the error “430 Class does not support
Automation or dies not support expected interface,” the
oleautomation attribute has been added back to
crystalcommom.idl.
OLEDB reports created using NT Authentication can ADAPT 38915
Developer (RDC)
now be reset to SQL Authentication at runtime. EID 1678
The Insert Subreport button is no longer enabled while
editing an existing subreport in the RDC.
You can now retrieve and add embedded fields in a text
object using the RDC.
You can now access the conditional formulas for report
objects.
A new member for setting page range in the RDC has ADAPT 48204
Developer (RDC)
been added to Crxf_export.dll to Word. EID 1805
LogOnServer now works correctly for multiple logons
and logoffs.
As in Crystal reports, you can no longer insert a group in
a blank report in the RDC.
SetMorePrintEngineErrorMessages has been added
back to the application object methods.
The RDC no longer allows exporting to Crystal Reports
7.0 format.
A member to set characters per inch in the RDC and
CRPE has been added to u2ftext.dll.
A member to set page range in the RDC to
crxf_export.dll (Word (Exact)).
Descriptions of object methods and properties have
been made consistent throughout the RDC.
A selected section in the RDC now uses the correct
Windows colors.
Developer (RDC) The Style Expert has been removed from this version. ADAPT 55978
The Chart context menu in RDC has been made
consistent with Crystal Reports.
Developer (RDC) OLEDB Reports created in the RDC using NT ADAPT 58953

Authentication can now be switched to SQL
Authentication at runtime.
The TopN button has been enabled on cross-tabs if the
report does not have group summaries.
The ActiveX Netscape Plugin viewer now works in
Netscape 4.78.
The Navigator Plugin viewer now refreshes group trees
Developer (Viewers) ADAPT 55997
properly through ASP.
The date picker for date parameters has been removed
Developer (Viewers) ADAPT 61023
in Netscape 6 for COM and Java viewers.
Page range exporting is now supported in Excel, PDF,
Exporting ADAPT 14171
RTF, and HTML formats.
The decimal format of a number field is now correctly
exported to Excel.
Exporting Shading can now be exported to Word format. ADAPT 14741
Cross-tab borders and row and column alignment now
export correctly to Word format.
Problems with exporting boxes to Word format have
been corrected.
“New Page After” in the group footer of a subreport now
exports correctly to Word format.
Problems with exporting various OLE objects to Rich
Text Format (RTF) have been corrected.
Exporting Subreport data is now correctly exported HTML format. ADAPT 14802
Numerous issues with exporting to Excel format have
been fixed.
Problems with exporting a report with background and
Exporting text colors and subreports to Word format have been ADAPT 14812
corrected.
Exporting a wide cross-tab to Word format now lines up
column headings and column data.
Reports with two subreports that are side by side now
exports properly to Word and RTF formats.
Exporting OLE objects and underlaid sections to Word
format has been corrected.
When exporting to RTF, fields that are formatted as
“Can Grow” can now be viewed properly.
You can now export section background colors to RTF
format.
When exporting to Word or RTF formats, the page
Exporting header no longer appears on all pages, including the ADAPT 15442
report header page.

Fields now retain their font color when exported to Word
format.
Pictures with tall objects next to them in a report are no
Exporting longer stretched vertically when exported to Excel ADAPT 15610
format.
When exporting to Excel format, fields larger than one
Exporting cell now have their borders and background colors ADAPT 15611
applied to each cell needed.
Text that is wrapped to multiple lines in Crystal Reports
no longer exported to Excel on one line.
BLOB fields, OLE objects, and graphs are now exported
to appear side by side when necessary.
An OLE Object is now exported properly to Word when
Exporting it appears in the page header and that section is ADAPT 15624
formatted to underlay.
The Suppress (No Drill Down) option for a report footer
is no longer ignored when exporting to Word format.
Section background colors are now exported to Excel
format.
Exporting Background colors are now exported to Word format. ADAPT 15629
Exporting to Word format now correctly sets tab stops
for columns.
Memo fields are no longer exported to Word in their
Exporting entirety when they are not marked as “Can Grow” in ADAPT 15665
Crystal Reports.
When exporting to RTF format, you alignment formatting
is now exported for objects in the page header.
A page header that changes from page to page now
exports consistently to RTF and Word formats.
Text highlighting is now exporting properly to Excel
format.
Exporting Wide cross-tabs now export completely to RTF format. ADAPT 16633
Page count fields now export correctly to RTF format
from all report locations.
Fields exported to Excel format can now be formatted
properly using Excel’s predefined styles.
When exporting an OLAP report to Word format, the grid
dimension labels are now positioned correctly.
Forced page breaks are now preserved when exporting
to Word format.
When exporting RTF format, the page header of the first
page is no longer applied to every page.
Exporting When exporting to RTF format, shared variables ADAPT 18549

(between reports and subreports) are retained and
running totals are calculated correctly.
“Print at Bottom of Page” is no longer ignored when
exporting.
Exporting OLE objects are now correctly exported to Excel format. ADAPT 19792
Exporting to Excel format with the column width based
on a section in the report is now supported. There are
also other enhancements to this format’s exporting
capabilities.
When exporting to Word format, vertical fields are no
longer truncated.
Exporting a report that contains vertical field objects to
RTF format no longer truncates text in the field object.
Correct formatting is retained when exporting reports
that contain large field objects to Word.
Correct formatting is retained when exporting reports
that contains large vertical field objects to Word.
Exporting now supports RTF and HTML interpretation of
string field values.
Color formatting from a custom palette can now be
passed to Excel when exporting.
Conditional page headers or footers are now exported
correctly in Word, PDF, RTF, and Excel formats.
Paragraph formatting (indents, line spacing, and so on)
Exporting now export correctly for all formats that support these ADAPT 21633
features.
Exporting an OLAP report with OLAP pages to Excel
format now exports section headings as well.
Text objects in the page header section now export
correctly to Word format.
Group headers and/or footers are no longer duplicated
when exporting to RTF format.
Repeated group headers now export correctly to Word
format.
Line wrapping is now correct when exporting to Word
format.
Exporting cross-tabs (with specified group order) to
Excel no longer loses row headings.
Cell width formatting now produces the correct
alignment when exporting to Excel format.
When exporting to any format, the “New Page Before”
Exporting option now works only for sections that are not ADAPT 22513
suppressed.

Exporting Font color is now correctly exported to Excel. ADAPT 22895
Exporting to RTF format no longer allows text to
overlapping other text.
The “Can Grow” attribute for text objects is now
exported to Word format.
When exporting large text objects to Excel, words will no
longer be separated at random lengths.
Exporting to Text format, a cross-tab with specified
ordered groups now includes the group text labels.
Exporting Exporting to RTF now retains font color. ADAPT 23923
Spaces at the beginning of a text objects are now taken
in consideration when exporting to HTML.
You can now correctly suppress duplicate records when
exporting to Word or Excel formats.
Text objects containing fields are no longer truncated or
overlapped when exporting to Word or Excel formats.
Subreport borders and widths are no longer ignored
when exporting to RTF format.
You can now view reports exported in Excel format
when using Office 2000.
Exporting Hyperlinks are now exported properly to RTF format. ADAPT 27468
Images exported to Excel format now retain their original
Exporting size (that is, they will be the same size that they are in ADAPT 27796
Crystal Reports).
Exporting to HTML will now create a correct HTML
header in the output file.
In Japanese Crystal Reports, exporting to RTF no
longer changes the report’s font.
Exporting Unicode reports can now be exported to PDF format. ADAPT 30382
Exporting to text format no longer adds a space in front
of the exported text.
The transparent background on a chart will now be
exported to all formats.
When exporting a PDF graphic to PDF or RTF formats, ADAPT 34251
Exporting
the graphic will now be of a better quality. EID 1622
In Japanese Crystal Reports, the report name, ADAPT 34584
Exporting comments, and file name now exports correctly in Excel EID 1627 & 1737
format to Lotus Domino. & 1900
In Japanese Crystal Reports, report name, comments
Exporting and file name now export correctly in Excel format to a ADAPT 34618
Lotus Domino database.
Exporting Memo fields now export in their entirety to RTF format. ADAPT 35165

You can now export reports that contain subreports ADAPT 36364
Exporting
when neither report has data. EID 1649
Cross-tabs and OLAP grids with indented row labels
now export correctly to Excel format.
Column headings in cross-tab objects can now be ADAPT 37217
Exporting
exported to all Excel formats. EID 1656
Exporting to Excel, RTF, and text formats now withholds
suppressed columns from cross-tabs.
Column headings in cross-tabs now export to Excel
format.
Wild card (0) support has been added to page-range
values for all page-based export formats.
Cross-tab row headings now export correctly to Excel
when “Suppress Subtotals” is turned on.
Support has been added to export a field object as a
string in XML format.
You can now export to Text or CSV formats to a
mapped UNIX drive.
Suppressed subreports are now saved without their data ADAPT 64589
Exporting
sources. EID 1930
Hyperlinks will now work after exporting a report to MS
Exporting TRACK 37507
Excel format.
Double, dashed, and dotted borders and lines are now
exported properly to PDF format.
The navigation bar in “HTML multiple pages” now
recognizes .htm extensions.
SQL Server “money” data type values will no longer
round up when exported to Excel formats.
When exporting to Excel, the £ (pound) sign will no
longer be replaced by the $ (dollar) sign.
You can now export a report that contains a graph with
no data to display.
You can now export a report using winforms via Internet
Exporting (.NET) ADAPT 45556
Explorer.
Field Explorer Running total field names are now case sensitive ADAPT 16537
Using the Delete key while editing the name of a
Field Explorer Parameter, Running Total, or Formula field no longer TRACK 41718
deletes the entire field.
You can now use Undo and Redo when formatting
Formatting ADAPT 13478
objects.
Formatting The new DrillDownGroupLevel function lets you ADAPT 13677
conditionally format a field or a section based on

whether it is currently on a drill-down view or not.
When formatting multiple fields, any settings that are not
common to all the fields will not appear.
Formatting Font color can now be set on the Formatting toolbar. ADAPT 14040
A full justification button has been added to the
Formatting toolbar.
Drawing and picture options are now available on the
Insert Tools toolbar.
Formatting The “New Page Before” is now applied to subreports. ADAPT 15598
Formatting Cross-tab headings are now aligned properly. ADAPT 15603
Formatting You can now add tool tip text in the Format Editor. ADAPT 20663
Undo and Redo now works for conditional formatting of
sections.
The user interface boxes for defining font size now
support the full range of valid fractional point sizes.
An option to make a report read-only has been added to
this version.
Formatting of multiple objects has been enhanced. This
formatting is now Undoable and Re-doable. As well,
common values between the objects can now be
accessed in the Format Editor.
Crystal Reports now correctly handles sections split
ADAPT 38927
Formatting across pages that don't require space on the second
EID 1674
page.
Oracle numbers files with no longer be appended with
ADAPT 41887
Formatting decimal places when the data contains doesn’t contain
EID 1752
decimal places.
Text objects that include “total page count” as an
ADAPT 44354 &
Formatting imbedded field and are set to “Can Grow” will now show
44701
the correct page count.
ADAPT 45359 &
Changing font size to smaller than 8 point will now be
Formatting 47905
saved correctly.
EID 1489367
Page Footer space is now correctly reserved in multi- ADAPT 61617
Formatting
column reports with multiple groups. EID 1902
Ctrl+right arrow now jumps from word to word when
Formatting TRACK 1084
editing text.
You can now include numeric calibration when creating
boxes with rounded corners.
Formatting You can now change line color using the color palette. TRACK 30134
You can now use Shift+left arrow to move back over an
embedded field in a text object.

You can now add a box or four-sided border around text
with a single option.
Drag and drop has been implemented in the Formula
Formula Editor ADAPT 13307
Editor.
An “Insert Empty String” operator has been added to the
operator list.
A new keyword completion feature has been added to
the Formula and Custom Function editors.
Sorting of the Formula Editor’s trees is now saved when
exiting and re-entering the editor.
The Formula Editor now supports the exclamation mark
(!) as part of the path for a File System driver.
Formula Editor You can now select and comment out a block of text. ADAPT 26144
Formula Editor Long strings and memos can now be used in formulas. ADAPT 26909
Basic Syntax Control Structures in the Operator Tree
have been made more descriptive.
Numeric values larger than 15 digits now round
correctly.
A problem in which conditional formatting buttons
ADAPT 40613
Formula Editor opened the wrong version of the Formula Editor has
EID 1477855
been fixed.
Shift+F2 now moves backwards through bookmarks in
Formula Editor TRACK 29262
the Formula Editor.
You can no longer edit a formula’s name in the drop-
down list at the top of the Formula Editor.
Comment in Basic syntax that use line continuation
characters will now be highlighted correctly.
TRACK 4996 &
Formula Editor UFLs are now sorted by function in the Formula Editor.
4998
Formula Expert You can now undo the deletion of two or more formulas.
ADAPT 36055
(.NET)
A new function, called ProperCase, has been added.
Formula Language ADAPT 13168
See the online help (crw.chm) for information.
Formula Language Support has been added for arrays of 0 length. ADAPT 20766
An optional Boolean argument has been added to the
Formula Language InStr function to allow you to specify case-sensitivity in ADAPT 24046
searches.
Formula Language The Switch function now works correctly. ADAPT 35150
CASE IS syntax can be used without problem in the ADAPT 45196
Formula Language
formula language. EID 1493827
Formula Language When a constant field is used in a record selection ADAPT 47616
formula (either in the main report or in a subreport), it is

now simplified at compile time and pushed to the server.
The constant value is substituted in the formula at
compile time; this increases the number of record
selection conditions that can be pushed to the database
server.
The Formula Editor has become part of the new
Formula Workshop ADAPT 14139
Formula Workshop feature.
The new functions HasLowerBound, HasUpperBound,
IncludesLowerBound, IncludesUpperBound have been
Formulas ADAPT 19456
added to address the minimum and maximum limits of
ranges with infinite boundaries.
The Choose, Switch and IIF functions now accept array
Formulas ADAPT 23919
arguments.
Color pickers have been added throughout Crystal
General ADAPT 17060
Reports for choosing colors.
The print engine will no longer crash when opening a ADAPT 36651
General
corrupt report; an error message will be issued. EID 1653
The correct page numbers are now displayed in Crystal ADAPT 39510
General
Reports. EID 1688
Long strings can now be seen in the Browse dialog box
General TRACK 37986
and in tooltips.
When “Perform Grouping on Server” is selected, no
Group On Server ADAPT 32671
page header or footer will be shown.
Grouping You can now undo the deletion of a group. ADAPT 13392
Grouping has been enhanced by the inclusion of the
Grouping ADAPT 15474
new Inset Group dialog box.
You can now insert and delete a group from the Group
Expert.
In the Define Named Group dialog box, the keyboard
Grouping now works properly after an item is added or removed ADAPT 19626
from the “is (not) one of” list.
The Report Creation Experts now contain a check box
to specify grouping on the Group tab.
An option not to show the group header or footer on drill
down has been added.
There are two new commands to delete all guidelines
Guidelines ADAPT 13561
that have been inserted in a section.
Hyperlinks have been enhanced to make them more
Hyperlinks ADAPT 23862
usable in the web viewers.
You can now pass command line arguments via
Hyperlinks ADAPT 27952
hyperlinks.
Setting a box to have rounded edges now updates
Lines and Boxes ADAPT 24952
immediately.

You are no longer forced to link report tables when the
Linking ADAPT 13410
unlinked tables do not have fields on the report.
Switching from the Fields tab to the Links tab no longer
Linking brings back all the tables regardless of which should be ADAPT 13447
visible.
It is now possible to link on any ODBC data type using
Linking ADAPT 13652
multiple sources.
With an Access linked table, you no longer get an
Linking incorrect error message when refreshing data after the ADAPT 14865
linked table’s database has been moved.
Smart linking has been enhanced to work by foreign key
Linking ADAPT 16051
information as well as by name.
All fields (including date/time field) can now be browsed
Linking ADAPT 16348
when linking tables.
Better support for UNIONS has been added to Crystal
Linking ADAPT 17434
Reports.
A, B, and C table linking is supported for SQL Server as
Linking long as the tables are from the same server and can be ADAPT 17773
linked by the server.
Data for date/time fields can now be browsed on the
Linking ADAPT 18618
Links tab of the Database Expert.
Linking Crystal Reports now supports Cartesian Product linking. ADAPT 18901
Link options are now disabled when not using supported
Linking ADAPT 19166
link types.
Use the Links tab of the Database Expert to change
Linking SQL Join types when using tables from different ADAPT 23041
servers.
You can now reassign map values that are already in
Mapping ADAPT 20319
use on a map.
The types of the fields that are listed are now more
Mapping Fields consistent with the unmapped fields when “Map type” is ADAPT 22861
selected.
Menus A “Select All' option has been added to the Edit menu. ADAPT 15649
The Analyzer and its menu have been dropped from this
Menus version; all functionality is still available from new Chart ADAPT 19638
and Map menus.
The contents of the menus have been changed in this
Menus ADAPT 21159
version of Crystal Reports.
The Cartesian Product option for OLAP data has been
OLAP ADAPT 16448
fixed.
OLAP Reporting The Favorites button now works in the Field Picker. ADAPT 27568
OLAP grids now refresh automatically when new fields
OLAP Reporting ADAPT 31931
are added to a dimension.

OLAP grids now automatically detect new fields that are
added to a dimension upon refresh.
Removing levels from an activeMemberSet no longer
fails when there is a calculated Member.
OLAP Reporting You can now connect to SAP BW data sources. ADAPT 59001
The Name Server Type for HDC files has been changed
OLAP Reporting from "Crystal Analysis Server Cubes" to "Holos HDC ADAPT 87650
Cubes".
OLE Objects OLE objects can now be exported successfully. ADAPT 13643
JPEG files saved in an Access database and entered in
OLE Objects reports as OLE objects with “Can Grow” set will no ADAPT 27760
longer display larger than their original sizes.
Pictures from binary fields retain their quality when
OLE Objects ADAPT 29171
resized in Crystal Reports.
Metafiles accessed from a database are now rendered
OLE Objects ADAPT 59706
correctly.
In Japanese Crystal Reports, the edit mask now
Parameters ADAPT 20711
supports Japanese characters.
In French Crystal Reports, default values and prompting
Parameters values for Currency parameters now display the correct ADAPT 34773
formatting.
Crystal Reports will no longer fail when a parameter is ADAPT 40556 &
Parameters renamed if you left the cursor in the name of the formula 47904
before choosing OK. EID 1478104
The edit mask now works as expected when applying it
Parameters ADAPT 47904
to parameters with two strings.
Displaying a parameter field’s default value with its
Parameters TRACK 34482
description no longer interferes with the Edit Mask.
There is no longer a 254 character length limit on
Parameters TRACK 9299
parameter field string values.
In Crystal Reports, you can now change page size and ADAPT 14605 &
Printing page orientation on machines that don’t have a printer ADAPT 21908 &
installed. ADAPT 22752
Printing multiple copies of a report or collating copies of
a report no longer sends multiple jobs to the printer. ADAPT 15907 &
Printing
Now, when a printer supports multiple copies or ADAPT 17919
collation, the work is passed on to it.
Proper error message will be generated as necessary ADAPT 56120
Printing
when printing reports that are over 65,535 pages long. EID 1876
Page range error messages have been made consistent
Printing when printing pages from very large reports ADAPT 58676
(approximately 65,535 pages).
Report Explorer The new Report Explorer shows where all the fields and ADAPT 14151

objects are placed on a report.
A Report Explorer has been added. This explorer can
help you locate fields in the design view. By selecting a
Report Explorer ADAPT 16789
field in the explorer, the embedded field in the design
view will also be selected.
Null values can be converted to default in the Options or
Report Options ADAPT 14033
Report Options dialog boxes.
Report Processing You can lock the COM1, COM2, etc. ports by sending
ADAPT 58715
(.NET) requests to ServerFileReportService.asmx.
The proper value will now be displayed for a running
ADAPT 50361
Running Totals total in a group header when the header prints on the
EID 1498646
previous page.
You can now properly save a report even when it is
Saving ADAPT 23277
shared on your network.
Double precision number handling has been enhanced
Selecting ADAPT 19653
—such numbers are now compared up to 15 digits.
Numeric fields entered with more than two decimal
Selection places are no longer rounded when you re-enter the ADAPT 15636
Select Expert.
Field order can now be easily adjusted in the Record
Sorting ADAPT 13583
Sort Expert.
All appropriate parameters will now be enclosed in ADAPT 41056
SQL
quotes in the SQL created by the Query Designer. EID 1716
Date range record selection now generates a ADAPT 42845
SQL
BETWEEN operator where necessary. EID 1736
Using ODBC for Sybase, you can now use a decimal
SQL Expressions number value as the first argument to the POWER ADAPT 20415
function.
The new crdb_oracle.dll supports more than 254
Stored Procedures ADAPT 17282
characters.
The full table name is now used when calling a stored
Stored Procedures procedure; this allows reporting off stored procedures in ADAPT 20291
another user’s schema.
For the native Oracle driver, you can now include a
Stored Procedures ADAPT 24657
single quote ( ' ) in a char or varchar2 type parameter.
Stored Procedures You can now create a report off of a parameterized
ADAPT 42550
(.NET) Stored Procedures when the parameters are date/time.
Subreports You can Undo and Redo the insertion of subreports. ADAPT 13845
Setting the location of the database now propagates
Subreports ADAPT 21671
through to subreports.
Using the “is between” record selection option during
Subreports subreport design will no longer cause the program to ADAPT 30042
fail.

Subreports You can now rename a subreport from the main report. ADAPT 38173
Undoing and redoing subreport changes will now update
Subreports ADAPT 53778
the subreport preview correctly.
It is now possible to add subtotals for two fields with the
Subtotaling ADAPT 40831
same field description.
A problem with scrolling in the Insert Summary dialog
Summarizing ADAPT 21989
box has been resolved.
The Insert Summary toolbar button is now disabled if the
selected field cannot be summarized.
If a summary field is passes as a summarized or second
summarized field, an error will be issued.
The movement of the cursor has been corrected for use
Text Objects ADAPT 23888
with the system font on Chinese operating systems.
Text Objects You can now insert an HTML file into a text object. ADAPT 62860
When editing a text object, you can now use the Page
Text Objects TRACK 4806
Up and Down keys.
Crystal Reports now allows Top or Bottom percentage
Top N ADAPT 17197
sorting.
In the Report Expert, clearing the Add Grand Totals
Totaling checkbox and setting the focus elsewhere no longer ADAPT 27187
results in the checkbox being disabled.
The program now includes information about the UFLs
UFLs ADAPT 13548
used in the report.
Objects located beneath charts can now be seen
Viewers ADAPT 20760
correctly in the viewers.
The Crystal Report viewers have been modified to
Viewers ADAPT 24231
provide better image resolution.
In Japanese Crystal Reports, the viewers can now
Viewers ADAPT 87131
accept parameters under the Japanese locale.
Cross-tabs with conditional formatting no longer displays
Viewers (.NET) ADAPT 35859
cells with suppressed or null values as black boxes.
Viewers (.NET) .NET viewers now include support for map drilldown. ADAPT 59244
The WinForm viewer now bubbles events to the top
level control.
Paper orientation is now held when printing from the
Windows Form Viewer.
Hyperlink handling now works as expected in the
Viewers (ActiveX) ADAPT 50025
ActiveX viewer.
The Excel (Data only) export format has been added to
the ActiveX viewer.
When a new browser window is created, a unique frame
name is supplied to ensure a new window is created.

You can now drill down to subreports in the DHTML ADAPT 12297
Viewers (DHTML)
viewers. EID 1583 & 1953
Viewers (HTML) The HTML viewer now reflects changes made to report. ADAPT 86062
For consistency with Crystal Reports, the Java Viewer
Viewers (Java) now displays a message box when closing the main ADAPT 17400
view of an on-demand subreport.
The “Find Next” search option has been improved in this
Viewers (Java) ADAPT 17740
version.
When expanding multiple group tree nodes in the Java
Viewers (Java) viewer, the number of nodes that can be seen has been ADAPT 20773
greatly increased.
Viewers (Java) Time parameters now display correctly. ADAPT 56989
The ActiveX viewer no longer has drill-down navigation
Viewing ADAPT 28513
problems due to how it draws bitmap images.
When hosting a winform in Internet Explorer, the login
Viewing (.NET) window now appears for a report webservice when ADAPT 45558
needed.
Hosting a winform in Internet Explorer now shows the
Viewing (.NET) ADAPT 58724
proper controls.
You can now rename one XML element without
XML TRACK 51221
renaming all similarly named elements at the same time.
You can no longer have two XML elements with the TRACK 51252 &
XML
same name. ADAPT 27992

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1. New notes for version 9.2.2

Public Instance Methods:

SetParameterValue - Overloaded. Sets the current value of a parameter field.

SetDatabaseLogon - Overloaded. Sets the database logon information.

ExportToDisk(ExportFormatType, string) - Exports a report to a file in the specified format.

ExportToStream(ExportFormatType) - Exports a report to a stream in the specified format.

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2.1. Minimum System Requirements

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2.2. .NET Installation

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2.3. Report Application Server (RAS) Installation

2.3.1. Minimum System Requirements for the Report Application Server

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2.3.2. Notes and Limitations

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4. Notes and Limitations

4.1. Crystal Enterprise (CE) Integration

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4.3. Unicode Support

4.5. Data Access

4.5.3. Crystal Dictionaries

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4.5.5. Crystal Rowset Provider

4.5.7. DataDirect (Merant) ODBC Drivers

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4.5.11. JavaBean Connectivity

4.5.12. Lotus ODBC Driver

4.5.13. ODBC Drivers

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4.5.15. Open OLAP (HAPI)

4.5.17. SQL Server

4.6.1. .NET Designer

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4.6.3. .NET Project Migration Tool

4.6.4. .NET WebForm PartViewer

4.6.5. .NET WinForm Viewer

4.6.6. ActiveX Viewer

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4.6.8. Interactive Viewer (COM)

4.6.9. Interactive Viewer (Java)

4.6.10. Interactive Viewer (All)

4.6.11. Report Application Server (.NET SDK)

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4.6.12. Report Application Server (COM SDK)

4.6.13. Report Application Server (Java SDK)

4.6.14. Report Application Server (All SDKs)

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4.6.15. Report Designer Component (RDC)

4.6.16. Report Part Viewer (COM)

4.6.17. Report Part Viewer (Java)

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4.6.18. Report Part Viewer (All)

4.6.19. Report Viewers

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