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1702738 - When changing the "Preferred Viewing Locale" setting to another Language in Crystal Reports for Enterprise, it do not display the Monthname and ToText Function in the choosen language.

Symptom

 

When changing the "Preferred Viewing Locale" setting in the View-Menu to another Language (German, French, English, etc) in Crystal Reports for Enterprise then it do not display the Monthname and ToText Function in the choosen language.

Environment

  • Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0 SP2 FP 11
  • BOE 4 SP 2 FP 11

Reproducing the Issue

  1. create a CR report
  2. create a CR formula:

totext( CurrentDate, "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss MMM") & ' - ' & Monthname(Month(CurrentDate) )

  1. Use this formula in the report to get shown
  2. Change the preferred viewing locale from de to us to fr 
  3. The monthname-text language don't changes, only a change of the product locale has an effect of textchange
    Note: With Crystal Reports 2011 the Monthname - text languages was successfully changed 

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Cause

  • ADAPT01616521
  • The issue has been identified and logged under Problem Report ID

Resolution

 

This issue has been addressed by BI 4 Service Pack 02 Patch 14

Keywords

 

Monthname and totext formula, preferred viewing locale setting, change language to another languages, crystal reports for enterprise , wrong result in monthname and totext, monthname, totext, ADAPT01616521 , KBA , BI-RA-CR-DSL , Crystal Reports on Data Semantic Layer , Bug Filed

Product

SAP Crystal Reports all versions

Attachments

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