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Group specified on non-recurring field

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Symptom:

Attempting to generate a report with Crystal Reports (8) the following error is generated and no report produced:

Group specified on non-recurring field

This error has been observed when attempting to run a report using Crystal Reports 8 that had previously been produced and run without problems using Crystal Reports 7.

Cause:

The error means that whilst there are one or more groups defined in the report that one (or more) of these groups does not have a valid group by condition. (This is either an incompatibility between Crystal 7 and 8 or a change in behaviour.)

Remedy:

For each group check that it has a group by condition. Do this by re-specifying the group:

1. Open the report in Design mode.
2. From the menu select: Report > Change Group Expect ...
3. For each group in turn, click the group name and then click on [Options...] (or simply double click the group name).
4. On the 'Change Group Options' dialog select a field that the report is to be sorted and grouped by, then click '[OK]'.