Crystal Reports 2013 - Data source alias with "\\"

[Former Member]

Hi,

I installed Crystal Reports 2013 Trial Version yesterday and had it installed on my laptop. I am trying to create a report for the ERP system that our company is using. The report uses a view called "xxxxx" as it's data source. However as prerequisite of our ERP system, I have to change the data source name to "xxxxx\\". But the problem is when I tr to change the name of the data source to "xxxxx\\", I get below message. How do I stop getting this message?

Appreciate your help! 

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SAP Crystal Reports

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Invalid Argument provided.

Details: The alias requested 'xxxxx\\', contains a combination of characters which is not considered to be valid.

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OK  

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[abhilash_kumar · Accepted solution]

Hi Charith,

Please have a look at this post:

-Abhilash

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Abhilash,

Thank you for your reply.

I had come across that post earlier. However it does not answer my question. The answer itself is very confusing. The links which the the author had mentioned don't even work.

I also have Crystal Report XI and in that version I am able to add "\\" to report data source aliases.

Regards,

Charith

[former_member912415 · Accepted solution]

which post. can you provide the link please ?

[Former Member]

I found the solution for this...

Make the following changes in the regedit.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SAP BusinessObjects\Suite XI 4.0\Crystal Reports\Database] "InvalidAliasCharList"="!(){}"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAP BusinessObjects\Suite XI 4.0\Crystal Reports\Database] "InvalidAliasCharList"="!(){}"

Thank you everyone for your help!

Charith

[Former Member]

The regedit changes just worked for me, thanks Charith.

[former_member912415]

Hi Charith

I did the same changes to the registry. However, I didn't have the path

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAP BusinessObjects\Suite XI 4.0\Crystal Reports\Database] so I did the changes to

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAP BusinessObjects\Suite XI 4.0\Crystal Reports\DatabaseOptions] and

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAP BusinessObjects\Suite XI 4.0\Crystal Reports\DatabaseServer]

but no success, Please please help me...