Report Compilation Error in CF 2021 Update 2

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December 14, 2021
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After installing Update 2 for ColdFusion 2021, calls to cfreport with a .cfr template are erroring out with "Report compilation error." I can't see any other details. These reports have been working flawlessly for years. Any ideas how to resolve this?

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Correct answer MarkAtCU

ColdFusion support provided quick help with a patch that resolved this issue.

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AviationJunkie

New Participant

Is this possibly happening in 2018? I know it's not supported at this date, but when I try to run a CFR I get a 404. We only run these in the Summer. Last year it was fine, this year 404. But the files are exactly where we would expect them. Not updated since 2015.

Priyank Shrivastava.

Community Manager

@AviationJunkie Can you please share the screenshot of the error.

Thanks,Priyank Shrivastava

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AviationJunkie

New Participant

Turns out, years ago, our host gave us admin permissions to run cfr. Sometime this year, someone found those permissions and removed them. So we had to upgrade to VPS hosting.

We had no idea until an admin contacted us.

Charlie Arehart

Adobe Expert

For those who haven't noticed, the update technote for CF2021 update 5 indicates that the fix for this problem was included (CF-421239). That is good news...

...but I just had someone running update 5 who found that the problem remained, until they added the hotfix jar discussed above. Once they did (and restarted CF), then the error went away. That absolutely should not have been necessary. I will report it to Adobe, but I wanted to go ahead and share it here also, in case others experience the problem even with update 5.

And I would share the hotfix jar here, but the forum software here won't let us share a .jar (nor does it allow a zip). And we can't even rename it as txt file. The s/w checks the upload and complains if a txt file is binary.

So if you are either not yet on update 5, or have this problem even AFTER applying update 5, ask Adobe (via cfsup@adobe.com) to share with you hf202100-4212391.jar. Then place that in the cfusion/lib/updates folder (not removing any that is there), and restart CF. (I have a blog post with more on applying such special hotfixes from Adobe.)

Am I saying that anyone running update 5 SHOULD apply this special hotfix? Well, no. If you find that your cfreport code runs fine on update 5, then don't bother with this. I'm just saying that someone DID find they needed to add it still. (I confirmed that they did have update 5 properly installed: no errors, with the chf jar for update 5 properly in that lib/updates fodler already.) If you end up in this spot (after applying update 5), and you reach out to Adobe, perhaps they will explain (to you, or to us here) whether this is a wider problem.

/Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)

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Dave Watts

Adobe Expert

About sharing files here: I wouldn't do it, but there's no technical reason why you couldn't convert them to base64 before uploading them. Then, whoever downloads it will have to convert from base64 back to binary. This is a reliable way to send binary files as text, because base64 is literally just text.

Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC

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dcbs58733066

New Participant

Can you post the link where the hotfix is that takes care of this error? I too am having the issue after upgrading from v2018 to v2021. These reports have worked for years, but now having the report compilation error message.

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cld007

Inspiring

As stated above, your best bet is to reach out to Adobe's Support team for patch at cfsup@adobe.com

That is how I got the necessary .jar file to fix it.Once applied, everything worked fine. Carefull however that the fix is not part of any other patch that you will install down the road (based on my experience). So, if you install another patch from Adobe, you will have to reinstall the CFReport fix again after a new patch is installed.

Claude