Weekly Box Office Report message “Illegal Filename” appears when closing a report.

Sensible Cinema Box Office and Concession for Windows

VERSION COMPATIBILITY:
Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP

PROBABLE CAUSE:
The short title of the feature contains a character that is incompatible with Windows file naming conventions. The short title is used when auto-generating the filename.

RESOLUTIONS:
This only affects saving to a disk file. You can still generate this report over and over again indefinitely (as long as the playdate exists on your system) into the print preview window without saving it.

The user must go to each playdate in the reporting period and remove the illegal character from the short title making absolutely sure that the title is consistent from one day to the next. If one date contains an extra space or character it will be treated as an entirely different film and other unlike spelled days will not appear in the report.

The latest version of the software contains a filtering routine that prevents the creation of new features containing illegal characters in the short title field. This will not affect features created with versions of the management software prior to 1.1.27.

This document was created and added on June 3, 2003.