Crystal Reports Introduction
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Crystal Reports Introduction
Duration: 2 days
Pre-requisites Microsoft Windows and basic database concept understanding.
Overview
Following on from the 2 day Introduction course, delegates will be able to connect to their own data sources and design basic workable, drill down reports.
Report Design
- Creating a new reports
- The report design environment
- Working with Objects
- Setting system defaults
Record Selection
- Select Expert
- Select Record
- Save versus refresh
- Selection criteria
Sorting Grouping and Summarising
- Sorting and grouping records
- Sub-totals and Grand totals
- Top N
- Working with dates and times in groups
- Advanced grouping
Linking
- Linking concepts and working with links
- Adding and removing tables
- Using Smart Linking
Extras
- Using lines, boxes and images, text objects
- Using Special Fields
Formulas
- Working with formulas and the Formula Editor
- Calculations (basic, date, Boolean, IF and strings)
- Crystal functions
Section Formatting
- Basic section formatting
Conditional Reporting
- Highlighting Expert
- Conditional formatting formulas
Charting
- Creating Charts with Chart Expert