Are there any limitations in crystal reports?

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Are there any limitations in crystal reports?..

Answer / rahul

1. In export- While exporting data formatting is lost.
2. If database is having field whose length is more than
255 characters, then you cannot make formula using that
field.
3.When you browse data just by right clicking on the field
then it displays that is there in the database not the data
selected by the query.

Is This Answer Correct ?    41 Yes 8 No

Are there any limitations in crystal reports?..

Answer / vijay yadav

Yes inside a subreport another subreport is not allowed so
very big limitations of crystal report.

Is This Answer Correct ?    24 Yes 4 No

Are there any limitations in crystal reports?..

Answer / mlmcc

Crystal 9 removed the length limitation on strings or text
in a formula.

Depending on the format chosen for the export you can get a
formatted report exported. For instance if you export to
Word or PDF the file looks like the report.

Is This Answer Correct ?    12 Yes 4 No

Are there any limitations in crystal reports?..

Answer / manish mhatre

1) End User need to have the crystal report viewer in his pc
in order to see the crystal reports.
2) You need to buy crystal reports license for each pc you
are used to design crystal reports
3) inside Subreports you are not allowed to another subreports

Is This Answer Correct ?    9 Yes 1 No

Are there any limitations in crystal reports?..

Answer / anoop

in reply to answer no 1 i would like to say.
while export in crystal report 10 formating is not lost (i
have checked in case of date).

Is This Answer Correct ?    5 Yes 1 No

Are there any limitations in crystal reports?..

Answer / sajal kumar

There is sizing limitation of the of formula language, like

The maximum length of a string constant, a string value held
by string variable, a string value returned by a function or
string element of a string array is 65,534

The maximum size of array is 1000 elements

The maximum number off arguments in any function is
1000.this is applicable to function that can have infinite
number of arguments like choose

Date time function modeled in crystal report function
accepts date from year 1 to 9999.

The maximum number of loop condition evaluation of per
evaluation of formula is 100000. Option loop can be used to
change this limitation.

Is This Answer Correct ?    4 Yes 0 No

Are there any limitations in crystal reports?..

Answer / roshan

Yes there are many limitations in crystal reports..

We can'ot have relative growth for the two text boxes in
the crystal reports ..

We can'ot have the formula fields output that can be given
for the crystal report

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Are there any limitations in crystal reports?..

Answer / ranjani

Stored procedure cannot be linked with any tables

Is This Answer Correct ?    10 Yes 8 No

Are there any limitations in crystal reports?..

Answer / theeba

It does not recognise <a></a> tag. Any Ideas.

Example: One field has
"This is <a href='www.abcdef.com'>abcdef</a>".

Text Interpretation to HTML should convert it to This is
abcdef with hyperlink for abcdef right.

But it is not converting.

Is This Answer Correct ?    4 Yes 3 No

Are there any limitations in crystal reports?..

Answer / paul marks

Is any member aware of any restrictions relating to the
number of sections processed and printed on a report at
using the runtime DLL’s

Is This Answer Correct ?    0 Yes 0 No

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