1218899 - Error: "Formatting formulas must be print-time formulas" when opening report in Crystal Reports

• Error: "Formatting formulas must be print-time formulas"
• When opening a report in Crystal Reports XI or higher, that had been created in an earlier version, the following error messages appears:
    
  "The Saved Data will be discarded as one or more of the formulas failed to compile".
    
  Followed by:
    
  "Formatting formulas must be print-time formulas".
   
  Why do these error messages appear and how do you resolve them?

• Crystal Reports XI
• Crystal Reports XI R2
• SAP Crystal Reports 2008
• SAP Crystal Reports 2011
• SAP Crystal Reports 2013
• SAP Crystal Reports 2016
• SAP Crystal Reports 2020

1. In Crystal Reports XI or higher, open a report.
2. It displays the error.

• These error messages appear because the report uses formatting formulas that contain the 'WhileReadingRecords' function.
• While earlier versions of Crystal Rpeorts allows the use of the 'WhileReadingRecords' function on formatting, Crystal Reports XI does not.
• Formatting formulas are print-time formulas and should not allow the use of the 'WhileReadingRecords' function.

• This is expected behavior.
      
• To workaround this situation in Crystal Reports XI and higher, create a 'regular' formula field with the same logic as the formatting formula. You can then reference the output of that 'regular' formula field in the formatting formula.

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