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Oracle Reports bug when running as concurrent request.

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- Note - This seems to be a common error with Oracle Reports 10g. The trick is to convert the report using Tools > File Conversion and convert it into character mode. The file extension stayed the same (RDF) in my situation.


How to solve “REP-1219” error

The Oracle Reports error documentation states:

REP-1219 : '<object name>' has no size -- length or width is zero.
Cause: In creating your layout, you created a layout object that has its
Width and/or Height set to zero.
Action: In the property sheet for the object, enter a value for Width
and/or Height.

SOLUTION DESCRIPTION:
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REP-1219 can occur when you have built a report as a bitmapped report, but
then run it in character mode.

When you run in character mode, the fields and boilerplate are rounded to the
nearest character cell. Unfortunately, this can sometimes result in the
objects getting rounded down to have a height of zero, causing this error.

Re-default the layout with 'Use Character Units in the Layout Editor' report
property checked.

If you have done a lot of work on the layout that you don't want to lose, try:

o Increasing the appropriate field's height in the Layout Editor, or
o Changing the field to use a larger font.
For example: go from Courier 10 to Courier 12


SOLUTION EXPLANATION:
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A report can be defined using inches, centimeters, picas/points, or
characters. In character mode, the unit is character. In bitmapped mode the
default unit is inch, but it may also be set to centimeters or picas/points.

REP-1219 errors occur when the bitmapped object that you have converted to
character mode is less than half the height or width of a character cell. As
a result, Reports has mapped its size to zero during formatting.

Basically if the bitmap unit of measure equates to a size smaller than 1
character, it will convert to 0 size, and REP-1219 will occur.