I get this error while trying to create a parameter in a report. What does this mean?

Found a series of cases on tech support for this:
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Resolutions varied -- in some instances it was version issues with .jar files. In some it was putting a space between the & and the spot marker. Take a look. One might be similar to your release, environment, code, etc.

If you don't have an account with tech support, go ahead and create one. There is a lot of useful information available there. (You will need your site code). Searching on this topic resulted in 75-100 hits.

Check your cgivars.wfs (or site.wfs) file (in the client, not the server path) to see what the setting is for:

IBIF_wfdescribe

To get this to work, you may need to have:

IBIF_wfdescribe = XMLRUN

Suzy

The cgivars file has what you mentioned but still it doesnt work. is it some problem with the version of WF that i have installed. This error occurs whenever i define a parameter and run the report.

i got this all the time while i was testing 533.
for me, it was always an &var problem, always.
Once i made sure all the &vars were initiallized, the problem went away.
but then of course, so did 533...we tossed it.
i started the fix by writing the code in smaller segments...one executable paragraph at a time...starting from the top of the fex. Just slapping a -EXIT into the existing full code didn't help...i had to start a new text fex, and incrementally add paragraphs until i found the errant &var. They all had to be initialized. works differently from 52.
And of course we also had win2003 sp1..which we also just tossed. we rolled back sp1 in prep for trying 534.

Make sure that all the parameters you use are properly defined or having some default value.

This error can came if your are using some dynamic variables which are not properly defined!

problem is solved. some problem with the configuration. some jar files were not ion the right path