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October 16, 2015
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Hi,

Went from RB v4.7 to v5 after the release since it seemed like it could be hugely beneficial but apparently Adobe released a very faulty and buggy piece of software. So uninstalling it and going back v4.7 created a huge amount of issues, none of which resulted in RB working.

Long story short, new laptop running Win 7 and Excel 2013 (About reports 32 bit version) and neither v4.7 or v5.0 (further, not even 32 or 64 bit versions) work. Nothing. Doesn't come up on the Add-Ins tab; going to add-ins under options shows that sometimes Report Builder bridge is active, sometimes inactive, sometimes not there (depending on the install or its mood).

This is hugely frustrating and I desperately need help. It would be enough just to get back to where I was before this mess but I can't. I am loosing a lot of time since many Excel dashboards are build around RB and they just cannot be run.

Please help.

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Best answer by drewa64795483

Hey

140529-000018

This is an incident that contains an issue. Unable to get any data since upgrading it just sits saying "retrieving data".

There is a workbook attached to the ticket.

Cheers

Drew

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Sonderlinger

New Participant

Same problem here, not able to refresh any of my reports, RB 5.0 just hangs at Retrieving Data.

I tried to uninstall 5.0 and reinstall 4.7 but this version doesn't even show up in Excel.

Gigazelle

Employee

Do any of you have incident numbers to go along with these issues? I was looking through our list of ReportBuilder bugs to be fixed on the 19th, but didnt find anything relevant to this thread. If there are bug ID's, I can check and make they're going to be fixed.

From what it sounds like, some issues are in existing workbooks, while some are across the board. If you guys can provide any more detail on how i can reproduce the error on my end, that would be great.

D

ducxnguyen

New Participant

Same issue here. It was working last week and now all of a sudden it stopped working and "hangs". Was consistently working fine previously with the old version so this needs to be addressed asap.

adam_ankerstjer

New Participant

Same issues here. This is a very critical situation - Adobe needs to put some resources into this problem!

The report builder at it's core is a very good tool, but it is basically useless at this point with all the problems:

unability to update even simple data blocks
can't install new version properly
can't reinstall old version
etc.

I know that a lot of our clients have these issues.

Please do something!

Løjmann

New Participant

Hi,

I'm not seeing the same issues with RB 5.0 as you do, but I'm still facing many of the same issues as I did with v4.7:

Larger data blocks won't refresh (RB hanging/Excel freezes, System Level or '0' is returned in all cells)
Randomly successfully refreshed requests don't show any data, cells are blak

I was hoping that RB 5.0 would solve this for me, but unfortunately I'm still facing those issues. I'm aware of other Adobe clients having similar issues.

/Løjmann

Løjmann

New Participant

I also have a incident (#140611-000032) where I have reported the 'blank cells'-issue.

/Løjmann

J

jkragiel

New Participant

Similar experiences here, except this is the first time RB has been installed on this computer so 4.7 vs. 5.0 compatibility issues won't exist for me (new job, so I'm working from a clean install -- I have plenty for RB experience from a prior job, so I know how to use it). I can only make extremely basic queries work. I spoke to my old co-workers and 5.0 made RB un-usable to them.

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hmueller1

New Participant

Hello all,

similar issues here.

I also have the issue that it hangs at receiving data, but unfortuntately only on one of 5 computers. Back to 4.7, uninstalling etc. is also very difficult, as the uninstaller does not work very well.

The main issue we are facing is that after a refresh, all cells are empty and you have to click "Refresh" again to display the data. This is not a new bug, it also appeared in 4.7 and Adobe promised to solve it in 5.0. But nothing happened.
Several other clients have this issue as well (see also posts above).

In general, it is really critical that ARB has so many bugs and you cannot trust the tool, as you have to doublecheck all data and there is always the danger of "surprises" (new bugs).
I really like the ARB concept and the ability to create flexible reports, but if Adobe wants to promote ARB as an alternative to API for custom reporting, it should fix these bugs asap.

BR
Hans