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Course Description
Crystal Reports XI: Report Design II - Business Reporting Solutions
Description: This two-day instructor-led course is designed to give students comprehensive skills and in-depth knowledge to plan and create reports that will help them analyze and interpret important information.
After completing the course, students will be able to:
- Use the Repository
- Create complex formulas
- Create Report Templates
- Build parameterized reports
- Summarize data with Cross-Tabs
- Use report sections
- Build specialized reports
- Share reports on the web
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 Report Design I – Fundamentals of Report Design.
Topics Covered:
| Use the Repository
- Manage the Crystal Repository
- Add folders to the Repository
- Add objects to the Repository
- Update connection to the Repository Object in the report
- Delete objects to the Repository
- Connect to your own Repository
- Create a report from an SQL command
- Create a report from a business view
Creating Report Templates
- Apply a Crystal defined template
- Build a template without a data source
- Remove templates
Creating Complex Formulas
- Use functions & operators
- Define control structures available in Crystal Syntax
- Use variables
- Use Arrays
Building Parameterized Reports
- Define & create parameters
- Use edit masks & descriptions
- Build a report with multiple parameters
- Create a date range parameter
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Summarizing Data with Cross-Tabs
- Build a basic Cross-tab
- Format a Cross-tab
Use Report Sections
- Use sections
- Use group-related functions to format sections
- Use section underlay
Sharing Reports on the Web
- Define how Crystal Reports fits into the Crystal solution
- Use Crystal Enterprise Publishing Wizard
- View Parameterized Report in Crystal Enterprise
Building Specialized Reports
- Use the running total expert
- Create a form letter
- Add hyperlinks to a report
- Build a report with alerts
- Create a top N report
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