I've developed a report in Crystal Reports 2011 (v14), and I need to get it to work in an application that's built on the reader for Crystal Reports XI (v11). I'm working on procuring XI, so I can adapt the report there, but in the mean time, it would be nice if I could just get the report as developed in 2011 to work. I was hoping this would work due to the forward compatibility note quoted in this answer.
When I try to run my report in the XI-based application, I get
ERROR: -2147206429
Invalid TLV Record.
In module: Crystal Reports ActiveX Designer
My suspicion is that my report is using some feature in 2011 that's not present in XI and somehow stumping the XI reader engine. When I took a report that had been developed in XI and opened and saved it in 2011, it opened with no trouble in XI.
What features are there in 2011 and not XI that could be tripping me up here? What should I check my report for to make it most likely that it will run in XI?
UPDATE: I tried rebuilding my report, one feature at a time, to see when the error kicks in on XI. It does as soon as I make a parameter's prompt group a dynamic list that queries a stored procedure or a table, even if I don't set any special characteristics of the prompt group. Given that dynamic parameter prompt groups came in with XI, shouldn't this work?
There aren't many- and as you state- i've always found them to be fully backward compatible.
The main things that spring to mind are the dynamic sort control and the ability to create optional parameters.
If you wish to attach the report I can try opening/saving/checking.