Crystal Reports Sort different on server vs Visual Studio

[Former Member]

We are coding many reports in Crystal using the Visual Studio 2010 plug in. We're hosting the web application on Win Server 2008 Enterprise 64bit. We use SQL to sort the data being sent to the report.

The issue: On some reports the order is different on the server than when developing using VS. We're hitting the same DB in both cases and have confirmed that the data table being passed to the report is the same in both cases. We've confirmed that the DLLs are the same between the environments. We have a workaround which is to dictate the sort in the report. That seems like overkill.

Any ideas?

Thanks ST

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

Hello Paul

A few things to try:

1) Make sure you are using SP 5 for CRVS

2) Enable the options "Verify on 1st Refresh" and "Verify Stored Procedure on 1st Refresh"

3) Install CR designer on the problem computer and see what happens there. This will only work if the datasource is 32 bit... An eval of CR 2011 can be downloaded from here:

http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/sme/freetrials/index.epx

- Ludek

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you.  Is there a service pack 5 available for the server installation?  We running Windows Server 2008 64 bit.

Option number 2 may not apply to us since we're not calling procedures from within the report.  We're passing a data table to the report.

Option 3 is out since we're in a  64 bit development and server environment.

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

Yes there is SP 5 for server installation. See the link to the 64 bit MSI in the doc I linked to in my previous post.

I'd like you to still try option (2) irrespective of tables, SPs or datasets. It will certainly not hurt.

- Ludek

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

None of these corrected the issue.  This issue is very worrysome.  The only difference that I can find between the two environments is the operating system.  I'm concerned that there will be sorting issues when we deploy to a production server.  Do you have any other ideas?

Thanks for your efforts

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

Hello Paul

Let me go back to one of your previous posts where you say:

We're passing a data table to the report.

Do you mean ADO .NET Dataset?

- Ludek

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I believe so.  We're using Report.setSetDataSource(DataTable from stored procedure).

We've looked at the data table in both environments and have confirmed that it is ordered the same way.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Confirmed:

DataTable reportData = null;

ReportDocument report = null;

// Assign report data

reportData = service.GetReportData();

// Set data source

report.SetDataSource(reportData);