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2042551 - The following characters are reserved for internal use only in Crystal Reports Designer formula names - ‘@’,’?’,’{‘,’}’

Symptom

Existing Report with {} in the formula name causes Crystal Reports Designer to be slow to open the report

In a CR for VS Windows .NET app it may fail to load report and/or it may generate an error - error in formula


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Environment

  • Crystal Reports Designer 2008 and higher ( Note: this likely was always allowed but may have generated various errors when attempting to use them)
  • Crystal Reports For Visual Studio

Product

Crystal Reports 2008 V0 ; Crystal Reports 2008 V1 ; SAP Crystal Reports 10.0 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2011 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2013 ; SAP Crystal Reports XI ; SAP Crystal Reports XI R2 ; SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio ; SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio .NET 2005 ; SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio .NET 2008 ; SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio .NET 9.1

Keywords

‘@’,’?’,’{‘,’}’, Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports for Visual Studio, error in formula, reserved characters '{', '}', '@', '?', , reserved characters '{', '}', '@', '?' cannot be used in formula name , KBA , BI-RA-CR-SDK , SDK related, including Java/.NET etc. , BI-RA-CR , Crystal Reports designer or Business View Manager , Problem

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