Symptom
- Using the Report Title field to identify a report
- Title fields longer than 120 characters are truncated
- Comments field is longer than 120 characters
- This may also result in the error:
Buffer too small for string or "Buffer too small for string or missing null byte"
Environment
- Crystal Reports XI R2 (11.5.x)
- Crystal Reports Developer for Visual Studio
- Crystal Reports 2008
Reproducing the Issue
- In the Crystal Reports designer, click on the File menu and select "Summary Info..."
- Fill out the Title field with a title longer than 120 characters
Cause
This issue has been tracked with ADAPT01587507
Resolution
This issues is fixed in:
- SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.0 Patch 6.10
- SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.0 Patch 8.1
- SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.0 SP09
- SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.1 Patch 2.2
- SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.1 SP03
Upgrade to Crystal Reports 2008 (12.x), Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 (13.x) or Crystal Reports 2011 (14.x)
- Comments field in the Summary Information now accepts up to 10K bytes
- All other fields in the Summary Information accept up to 2K bytes
Keywords
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