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Error: "A memo field can't be used in a formula."
Malcom since you have been so helpful, I wanted to let you know where I stand at the moment. I got the following information from Seagate: SCR gets the type, length, size, etc field info by using SQLColumns call to ODBC. Up to SCR 6, the MS ODBC driver (ODBCJT32.DLL) used to return information...- rcrei
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- Forum: Business Objects: Crystal Reports 4 Other topics
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Error: "A memo field can't be used in a formula."
Thanks for the additional ideas. I tried to take the report that works (even though I'm not sure why) and look at the field length. I got into the formula editor. When I highlight the field and do Browse data field. I get "ODBC error:" with no error text then it tells me that the...- rcrei
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- Forum: Business Objects: Crystal Reports 4 Other topics
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Error: "A memo field can't be used in a formula."
<br><br><br> MalcolmW - Thanks so much for your quick response.<br><br> Using the ODBC control panel, I changed the size of the fields being used in the<br> formulas, but it didn't work. Is there anything else that I have to do to...- rcrei
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- Forum: Business Objects: Crystal Reports 4 Other topics
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Error: "A memo field can't be used in a formula."
I am working on debugging a report that used<br>to work. I think it must have stopped working<br>after our upgrade Crystal 5 to Crystal 6 as part of PeopleSoft upgrade. (Not sure how it got through our testing.)<br><br>The report uses ODBC access to a comma<br>separated file. When we use the...- rcrei
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