Operation Not Implemented Exporting Excel (Data Only) Crystal Reports 2008

Question

I'm trying to deploy an application to a client's server, but export to Excel (Data Only) is not working, giving me the "Operation Not Implemented" error. It isn't a problem with the report, because I have over 50 reports with standard fonts, some of them very simple, and the export fails for all of them.

I have the feeling the incorrect version of exportmodeller.dll and crtslv.dll are being used, because the client seems to have some sort of logon script which appears to copy a CR8.5 version of the crystal reports libraries and register them with COM.

I attempted to automatically make a manifest file for my main executable to force it to use the correct version, but this didn't change anything.

Might I have missed something, or do you think I'm completely on the wrong track?

Answer 1

I narrowed the problem down to being related to a format issue with the report. It just happens to not affect my Windows 7 dev machine.

On the Windows Server 2003 R2 (x64) machine, if I remove the Print Date and Print Time special fields, it will export to xls (Data Only) successfully.

I did also notice that the process loads ATL.DLL on the Windows 7 box, but not the Windows Server box. I gather that could somehow be related.

So, a solution to my problem is to remove those fields. Full points if anyone can offer some advice which would prevent me from having to edit all of my reports.

Update: If I use a specific date/time format in my reports instead of "System Default Format" it also works.