Crystal Reports XI – Fundamentals of Report Design

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The target audience for this course is report designers, new to Crystal Reports, who are responsible for creating and distributing reports.


Transforming data into actionable information

This 12-hour E-Learning course is designed to give you comprehensive skills and in-depth knowledge to plan and create reports that will help you analyze and interpret information.

As a business benefit, you will find that this course is an in-depth approach to the entire report creation cycle – from planning a report prototype – to distributing a report.

Benefits
  • Planning a report – Defining database concepts and planning and developing a report prototype.

  • Creating a report – Connecting to a data source, adding tables, the design environment, inserting objects on a report, previewing and saving a report, positioning and sizing objects and formatting objects.

  • Selecting records – Defining the select expert, determining the record selection criteria, defining saved and refreshed data, applying record selection, applying additional record selection criteria, modifying record selection and applying time–based record selection.

  • Organizing data on a report – Sorting records, grouping records and summarizing data.

  • Formatting a report – Adding graphical elements, combining text objects with database fields, and applying specialized formatting Inserting fields with pre-built functions.

  • Applying section formatting – Formatting sections and creating a summary report.

  • Creating basic formulas – Defining formulas, creating formulas, applying Boolean formulas, applying if-then-else formulas, applying date calculations, applying number calculations, applying string manipulation, applying conditional reporting, determining trends in data and formatting data conditionally.

  • Representing data visually – Creating a chart.

  • Distributing a report – Exporting a report, and saving a report to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise.

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