sheridan101
Programmer
I am using:
Crystal Reports.NET
Windows 2000
Visual Studio .NET
C#
I have about 8 reports. They all share a standardized subreport "header" inserted at the top of the report. It is a linked external subreport. The directory on my development machine is shared. I have a separate machine that I do additional testing on (configured differently without MS Office).
Problem is, I just tried to make a change to the header for all reports, and on my development box, it works fine. However, on my other box, I have an older version of the reports that should NOT be using the new header yet... and yet they are!!!
This was confusing until I found that if I made the projects directory on my development box unshared, the report headers on the other box reverted to the one they were suppose to use.
However, with the directory unshared, I can now no longer make changes to the reports. Whenever I make changes, and save the changes, and I try to run the report, it gives me a version of the report from before I unshared the directory. I even deleted the header/subreport from one report, which should have given me a blank page top, and it still gives me a version of the report with the header.
This is completely confusing, baffeling and I am at wits end. My viewer program allows me to browse to a reports subdirectory and choose a report. I know for certain that the report I am choosing is the one I want to run. The date stamp on the .rpt file is what I would expect. The one I am choosing is NOT the one I am getting.
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I just set the directory back to being shared and I get the version of the report I want. Why does sharing that directory on my development machine make that kind of a difference??? Does Crystal somehow check/sync with Source Safe when it runs (though that should not matter since I haven't checked in the changes yet). What can be done to make Crystal less dependant on shared project directories??
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I just tried another test. I set the directory to be shared, ran my viewere and ran a report and got what I wanted. Then, without exiting from the program, I set the directory to be not shared and ran the report again and got an old version of it. I then set the directory to be shared and got the desired version of the report. How can I get it to stop doing this??????
Crystal Reports.NET
Windows 2000
Visual Studio .NET
C#
I have about 8 reports. They all share a standardized subreport "header" inserted at the top of the report. It is a linked external subreport. The directory on my development machine is shared. I have a separate machine that I do additional testing on (configured differently without MS Office).
Problem is, I just tried to make a change to the header for all reports, and on my development box, it works fine. However, on my other box, I have an older version of the reports that should NOT be using the new header yet... and yet they are!!!
This was confusing until I found that if I made the projects directory on my development box unshared, the report headers on the other box reverted to the one they were suppose to use.
However, with the directory unshared, I can now no longer make changes to the reports. Whenever I make changes, and save the changes, and I try to run the report, it gives me a version of the report from before I unshared the directory. I even deleted the header/subreport from one report, which should have given me a blank page top, and it still gives me a version of the report with the header.
This is completely confusing, baffeling and I am at wits end. My viewer program allows me to browse to a reports subdirectory and choose a report. I know for certain that the report I am choosing is the one I want to run. The date stamp on the .rpt file is what I would expect. The one I am choosing is NOT the one I am getting.
...
I just set the directory back to being shared and I get the version of the report I want. Why does sharing that directory on my development machine make that kind of a difference??? Does Crystal somehow check/sync with Source Safe when it runs (though that should not matter since I haven't checked in the changes yet). What can be done to make Crystal less dependant on shared project directories??
...
I just tried another test. I set the directory to be shared, ran my viewere and ran a report and got what I wanted. Then, without exiting from the program, I set the directory to be not shared and ran the report again and got an old version of it. I then set the directory to be shared and got the desired version of the report. How can I get it to stop doing this??????