Crystal Reports - "The report you requested requires further information"

Question

I have some Crystal Reports that were created using Crystal (external to Visual Studio) and are now loaded in the VS project. Before the report is previewed I set up the report database information like this in the report and all subreports.

        var connectionInfo = new ConnectionInfo();
        connectionInfo.ServerName = "192.168.x.xxx";
        connectionInfo.DatabaseName = "xxxx";
        connectionInfo.Password = "xxxx";
        connectionInfo.UserID = "xxxx";
        connectionInfo.Type = ConnectionInfoType.SQL;
        connectionInfo.IntegratedSecurity = false;

        TableLogOnInfo logon = table.LogOnInfo;
        table.LogOnInfo.ConnectionInfo = connectionInfo;
        table.ApplyLogOnInfo(logon);

The report displays correctly when it is initially previewed but when I go to the next page in the report preview I get the message, "The report you requested requires further information" and are prompted for the database login information again. Once I have entered it here I am no longer prompted. It appears that the initial ConnectionInfo I set up is not sticking past the first page.

I am using Crystal XI and Visual Studio 2008.

Answer 1

I have found the best way to fix a bug is to post the question to StackOverflow and 5 minutes later work it out yourself. Needless to say, I worked this out.

As well as setting all the log on info in the report objects, I also have to do it in the Crystal Viewer component in ASP.NET. So I just write some code like this and it all works, no prompts.

<CR:CrystalReportViewer Height="500px" ID="Viewer" runat="server" />

var connectionInfo = new ConnectionInfo();
    connectionInfo.ServerName = "192.168.x.xxx";
    connectionInfo.DatabaseName = "xxxx";
    connectionInfo.Password = "xxxx";
    connectionInfo.UserID = "xxxx";
    connectionInfo.Type = ConnectionInfoType.SQL;
    connectionInfo.IntegratedSecurity = false;

for (int i = 0; i < Viewer.LogOnInfo.Count; i++)
{
    Viewer.LogOnInfo[i].ConnectionInfo = connectionInfo;
}