We use Crystal Reports with our .Net architected applications for report generation.
Typically, only Runtime components are needed on the customer application servers for things to work smoothly. CR Developer is installed on the machines of the users who actually build reports only.
However, we recently found that file path strings (data in a field of the report) using "\\" are split with a line feed after the 1st \, That is,
Instead of
\\myserver\docs\file.txt
The report generates as
\
\myserver\docs\file.txt
The XML generated has no special characters added or other strange appearance.
After much head-banging, we found that this only happened in environments where we did NOT have CR Developer (2008) installed in the same place as Runtime components. If we install by RT components and Developer in the same place, the issue does not occur. Tried updating the RT servicepack, but that did not solve the problem
Can anyone explain why this would be necessary? Or better yet, suggest some way to resolve the issue short of installing CR Developer on each server?
Thanks to all