Is there a limit on the number of sections allowed? what makes a section..

[Former Member]

What makes a section invalid. I have been receiving this message when I tried to load a long report with many many sections

It seems that Crystal was made to allow a great many reports they are labled Details a through Details cx

Now I took out all the sub reports and my report still fails to load.

Can anyone give me a hint as to why a section might be considered invalid. Is there a utility that will go through a report and identify the invalid section.

I love crystal's diagnostics (sarcasm) - How do I determine which of over 60 sections is invalid????

It was not because of the subreports at least I do not think so?

Is there a utility that addresses such an error as an Invalid Section within a report???

[former_member184995 · Accepted solution]

From what I remember if you are using .NET then you can not have more than 80 sections in one area (ie in the detail section).

[former_member183750]

essentially the same query as in this thread:

closing this thread

Ludek

[Former Member]

Hi Ludek,

Good day.

Anyway you can have more 80 sections? Or what version of CR supports 80 sections?

Thanks a lot.

Regards,

Alvin

[former_member183750]

Hello Alvin:

Trying to get a concrete answer for this, I got more confused than ever. Here is what I do know;

Originally, the limit was 40. By CR 10 (this includes all versions of CR 10, including all .NET bundles) the limit was 80. In CR XI r2, the limit according to a bug report (ADAPT00571037) that was created on the issue was set to 120. And the note says that there is no earthly way to up that limit (no reason given). And then there is this thread:

where the customer was able to go with 151 sections.

Now, I could go and test this (possibly the test would involve testing this for the headers, footers and detail sections), but I suppose the real question here is; Why would anyone need dozens of sections in any part of a report? There should usually be a better way of designing a report. Adding sections makes the report very resource intensive, particularly if the sections contain subreports, formulas, etc.

Ludek