The following error message occurs with some reports of our Crystal Reports application, when you try to open them a second time.
"A Crystal Reports job failed because a free license could not be obtained
in the time allocated"
It seems to be a problem only with some reports (with a lot of data in particular). Other reports work without any problem. But once the error message appeared, all reports will fail.
Can anyone tell me how the licensing mechanism of Crystal Reports works?
Where is the "free license" obtained from?
Can this be a time issue due to the amount of data?
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From what we learned in the meantime, it seems to be a problem only with reports that called a particular long running PL/SQL package in the report command. And Crystal somehow doesn't like calling that twice.
And i guess the error message is just a secondary symptom and not the cause.
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After the last upgrade of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio, every time I open the report in design view I'm getting multiple certificate errors (see picture below). The errors comes from the SAP web site productupdates.sap.com, which indeed has certificate expired. But I cannot find any references to this site in my project. How to get rid of them? This doesn't happen on all computers, only on mine.
Posted this question in SAP forum - no answer.
Thank you.
https://productupdates.sap.com/ is expired.
See whether Crystal Reports->Check for Updates on Start Up is checked
Turning it off and re-opening the solution appears to stop the continuous certificate security alerts.
Recently a report that's existed for a while stopped working and it gave the error message:
The viewer could not process the event. The database logon information
for this for this report is either incomplete or incorrect. [] ----
Error code:0 [CRWEB00000119]
The thing that's throwing me is that nothing about either the report or the database it's connected to changed and to "fix" it all I did was save a copy of the report and put in the same credentials and database settings. I tried the Verify Database option which is what a lot of the results said to do, and that said that the connection was fine, but it didn't fix the issue.
Most of the other instances I found usually happened when something was changed and Crystal got out of sync with the database for some reason.
Has anyone ever heard of or experienced this where Crystal just up and starts failing or have any idea of why this might have happened?
When I deploy one of the reports I've made to the report server, a field that is shown when I preview in SSRS magically disappears. I've re-downloaded the report from the report server and opened it up in SSRS and the field reappears when I preview.
Has anyone encountered something like this?
I've tried searching for similar problems but nothing came up.
Please & thanks.
For a long time I have always deleted the report from the server prior to deployment when I change /Datasource/Parameters values---works for me. Then re-deploy and you should be set.
My new company got some legacy crystal report 8.5. Now I need to look into one of them because it runs too long. I run the rpt file using crystal report. I need to know how long it runs without keep an eye on it because it may run long time. Any idea? Thanks. I am fairly new to crystal report
BTW, it runs against a sql server 2005 database. I wouldn't use sql profiler until there is no other way to do it.
You're using CR 8.5 or these reports were written on 8.5?
I can't speak about extremely old versions of CR, but any reasonably recent version has this information by clicking on "Report" -> "Performance Information"
Unsure if anyone on here could lend a hand, but I thought I'd give it a shot. Google wasn't too useful.
I have a report that I was working on all yesterday in Crystal Reports XI. I thought it was all good and working, so I closed the file (big mistake). Now, I try and open it again, and it's not letting me.
I get the following errors:
"An Ole object in this report could
not not be loaded. It has been
replaced with a blank object"
So then crystal tries to load my report with it's changes (I think), and then I get:
" This document could not
be opened. It does not appear to be a
Crystal Report document. This document
has the expected file extension
(.RPT), but it seems to be corrupted.
If this report used to work, try
opening it with a different version of
Crystal reports and if that still does
not work, please contact your
administrator".
I don't have another version of Crystal to check it with, and I'm pretty much the local admin for crystal, and I have no idea what to do.
Crystal wasn't letting me save over previous versions of this report yesterday, and now none of the 6+ versions I have are loading.
Can anyone suggest anything to help?
I got around this error by recreating the entire report.
I have no idea what the issue was, but after I spend 2 hours recreating it, it now works as intended.
I'm guessing that if anyone else receives the terminal Corruption error, they should just throw it away and start again.
You can try opening it in Visual Studio, which may or may not have the same version of Crystal. But it's a binary file, and if that gets munched, I'm not sure you have much recourse.