CR 9: Eliminating "Proceeding to fix up report"

[JStandard]

Greetings,

Crystal Reports Professional 9.2.3.1256

I've read a few other threads concerning the message that pops up when you make a structural change to the underlying driver datasource for a crystal report, but none of them mentioned a way to eliminate or suppress the little alter dialogs that pop up stating "Proceeding to fix up report" and "myDS changed!".

I have a situation where I have a series of reports in a relatively stable stage that we are using them on a company wide basis through crystal viewers installed on everyone's desktop. The reports are still in a large state of development though, and I probably put in fixes to the underlying structure of the driver data on a weekly basis, thus causing the "Proceeding to fix up reports" messages to show up.

Is there any way to stop having them from popping up, either by disabling alerts in report or some setting I need to change?

Thanks,

Jeff

 

[synapsevampire]

The viewers have nothing to do with this, the version of the report does.

Once the report is "fixed", save it and then make sure that everyone uses that report, possibly from a shared drive.

-k

 

[JStandard]

k,

That is what I am attempting to bypass, actually having to save the report again, after each change I make.

The reason why this is a hassle is say I have 10 different Crystal Reports, all using the the same underlying data driver, stored proc, what have you. If I make a structural change to this underlying data driver, I have to go back to each of the ten reports, open them, run them, resave them.

The next day I find I need to make another structural change to the report, the same business.

I realize this may simply be a problem inherent in the development environment, where I am still putting bug fixes and new features into the reports while they are be used in production, just wondering if there is some way I could have this "fixing up the report" happen in then background 'automagically' without the user having a click fest each time they open up a report.

Also, if this is not doable in CR 9, is it possible a feature in CR 10 or XI?

Thanks,

Jeff.

 

[IdoMillet]

Have a look at the rptInspector utility. It may be able to "fix" and save all the reports in a single pass.

Cheers,
- Ido

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[dgillz]

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