Save Data With Report

A common problem encountered by Crystal Report Developers is "Save Data With Report", this feature stores the data extracted in the last execution with the report so that when the report is opened the report is displayed with data. This functionality is create in situations when data does not change on a regular basis and users can quickly view the data without having to rerun. However, in cases when data does change on a regular basis and/or it will be accessed via Crystal Enterprise tools or an web interface the report will always use this old data and not requery the database. Problems have also been known to occur with sub-reports as well. Crystal Reports comes out of the box with Save Data With Report as the default setting, it is recommended this setting be changed so developers do not have to remember to reset this settting for each and every report. The steps to achieve this are detailed below.

From the main menu select File and then Options. Note that if you just want to change a single report that you only need to Select or Deselect "Save Data with Report" on this menu (its the sixth item from the top).
From the resulting dialog box click on the reporting tab and locate "Save Data With Report" and be sure its deselected.
Click the OK button!

After doing this you should be able to create all your reports without having to worry about data being saved with them.