Kbase 16340: Report Builder Fatal Error 9 - Possible causes
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
10/05/1998 |
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Report Builder Fatal Error 9 - Possible causes
This Knowledgebase entry describes some of the possible
causes of the Report Builder error message
"Fatal error. Save your report, exit and restart Report Builder (9)"
1) The most common reason we have seen for getting
Fatal Error 9 involves using a database field in a
function within a calculated field. If the data in
the database field is longer than the database field
display format (from the Data Dictionary) this error occurs.
Some functions have been fixed in V8 including,
PREVIOUS(), CAPS()
(95-04-11-004, 95-02-15-012 )
2) Another cause of the error is when an invalid format is
specified as the second argument to the STRING() function.
The second argument to the STRING() function is supposed
to be a valid datatype for the first argument.
For example, STRING(Cust-num, ">>>>>9")
This has been fixed in V8.
(95-08-17-096)
3) If a character field has a value in the _decimals field
in the _Fields table (in the database schema) SQL interpretes
as the limit for the number of characters in the field.
If the _Decimals field is set to 0, the report works correctly.
(95-08-17-092)
Progress Software Technical Support Note # 16340