2947850 - Exporting HTML wrapped in text causes Crystal Reports Designer 2016+ and .NET CR for VS SP 27 CR Viewer to crash when exporting to txt format

Symptom

Crystal Report Viewer CR for VS SP 27 and CR Designer 2016 SP 8 will crash if you try to export the displayed report to either txt or ttx format.

All other formats (doc,xls,pdf,htm, ...) work without problems.

Environment

SAP Crystal Reports 2016
Crystal Reports Developer, for Visual Studio

Cause

HTML code wrapped with text will cause the Designer and CR Viewer to crash with no option to capture the exception.

Resolution

This issue has been escalated to R&D for a fix in both the DEsigner and the .NET SDK.

Keywords

Export to Text, HTML wrapped with static text, cr for vs, CR 2016 , KBA , BI-RA-CR , Crystal Reports designer or Business View Manager , BI-DEV-NET , BI Software Development Kits (SDKs) - .NET or Other , Bug Filed

Product

SAP Crystal Reports 2016 ; SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio