Crystal Reports Course Content

   Crystal Reports Course Content

   Report Design Concepts

• Planning the content of the report

• Manipulating data

• Determining print area characteristics

• Developing a prototype on paper

   Report Design

• Creating a new report

• Exploring the report design environment

• Putting objects in a report

• Preview and save reports

• The Report Explorer to view objects on reports

    Record Selection

• Defining the Select Expert

• Understanding saved vs. refreshed data

• Setting additional selection criteria

• Modifying records using Formula Editor

• Applying record selection on Date fields

   Sorting, Grouping, and Summarising

• Using the Sort and Group expert

• Modifying groups

• Creating nested or multiple groups

• Reordering groups

• Summarising records within groups

• Using Grand Totals

    Formatting for Presentation Quality

• Inserting lines, boxes, and pictures

• Using Text Objects

• Alignment and Size

• Applying specialised formatting

• Using Templates 

    Linking

• Defining linking concepts

• Using different types of links

    Formula Basics

• Working with the Formula Editor

• Basic number and date calculations

• Using Boolean formulas

• Using If-Then-Else formulas

• Using string formulas

• Dealing with Null values

   Conditional Reporting

• Using the Highlighting Expert

• Using Report Alerts

   Section Formatting

• Formatting using the Section Expert

• Creating a summary report

   Charting

• Creating a chart using the Chart Expert

• Customizing a chart

   Distributing Data / Reports

• Export to Word & Excel

• Export to PDF

• Create a Report Definition

• Static reporting

• Dynamic web reporting overview