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Course Description
Crystal Reports 2008:
Report Design II - Business Reporting Solutions
Description: This two-day instructor-led course
is designed to give students the comprehensive skills and in-depth knowledge
required to plan and create reports that will help them analyze and interpret important
information.
After completing the course, students will be able to:
- Use repository data sources
- Create complex formulas
- Manage reports
- Use variables and arrays
- Use report templates
- Build parameterized reports
- Summarize data with crosstabs
- Use report sections
- Represent data visually
Audience: This course is designed for report designers
responsible for creating & distributing reports.
Duration: 2 days
Prerequisites: In this course you will be working
intensively with Crystal Reports. To successfully understand the content
and complete the activities, you must already have taken Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design
I - Fundamentals of Report Design. If you have taken a previous version of this course, you should have completed Crystal Reports 2008: Quickstart.
Topics Covered:
| Using the Repository
- Create a report from a repository data source
Using Report Templates
- Apply report templates
- Build a template without a data source
- Remove a template
Creating Formulas
- Use functions & operators
- Define control structures available in Crystal Syntax
Using Variables & Arrays
Building Parameterized Reports
- Define & create parameters
- Build a report with multiple parameters
- Use edit masks & descriptions
- Create a date range parameter
- Group using parameters
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Summarizing Data with Cross-Tabs
- Build a basic cross-tab
- Format a cross-tab
Using Report Sections
- Use group-related functions to format sections
- Use Section Underlay
- Use multiple-column reporting
Managing Reports
- Use the Workbench
- Publish reports to BusinessObjects Enterprise
Presenting Data Visually
- Use the Running Total Expert
- Create a form letter
- Add hyperlinks to a report
- Use Dynamic Graphic Locations
- Build a report with alerts
- Create a top N report
- Integrate an Xcelsius Flash SWF into a Crystal Report
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