| Course Description | |
| This two-day workshop is designed to enhance your basic report writing skills and move you into creating more complex reports. Time will be spent walking you through the tips and tricks of advanced report writing along with a good amount of hands on practice. In addition, you will cover professional design, techniques, sub-reporting and advanced formulas. This course incorporates a number of hands on exercises that reinforce the learning process.
Course Length: 2 Days Course Tuition: $690 (US) |
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| Prerequisites | |
| Successful completion of either the Designer 1 Workshop or the pre-qualification exercise is strongly recommended. | |
| Course Outline |
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• Refresher Exercise Review of Planning a Report Creating the Report Placing Fields on the Report Creating Formulas Advanced Grouping Selecting Certain Records Helpful Hints for Formatting the Report Adding and Working with Text Objects Hiding and Suppressing Sections Guidelines • Power Formatting with Multiple Sections Using Multiple Sections in Reports Using the Section Expert to Work with Sections Conditionally Formatting Multiple Sections • Using the Running Totals Feature Understanding Running Totals Creating Running Totals for a List of Numbers Conditional Running Totals • Prompting with Parameters Parameter Fields Overview Parameter Field Considerations Creating a Parameter Field Using a Parameter to Select Records Using a Parameter Field Using the Parameter Panel Creating a Dynamic Value List for Parameter Values Importing a Pick List Adding Parameter Values to Text Objects Allowing Multiple Values in Parameters Using Multiple Parameter Fields in Reports Specifying and Limiting a Range for a Parameter Using Parameters in Conditional Formatting Using an Edit Mask to Limit String Parameters Sorting with a Parameter Group Sorting with a Parameter Using a Parameter to set N in a Top N or Bottom N Report Displaying Parameter Fields Cascading Parameter Fields • Using Advanced Formula Features Understanding How Crystal Reports Processes the Data What is a Pass? Using Evaluation Time Functions Working with Variables Declaring a Variable Assigning a Value to a Variable Using a Variable in a Formula Variable Scope Separating Statements in Complex Formulas Working with Arrays Understanding the Formula Evaluation Time Debugger • Using Subreporting as a Workaround Solution Understanding Subreports Unlinked verses Linked Subreports Creating an Unlinked Subreport Linking a Subreport Database Links versus Subreports in One-to-Many Situations Formatting the Subreport Passing Data from the Main Report into a Subreport Creating On-Demand Subreports Creating Hyperlinks Using Subreports to Link “Unlinkable” Data |
• Creating Powerful Groups Creating Custom Groups Customizing Group Sort Order Using Group Selection to Filter the Records in the Report Grouping on a Formula Field Grouping Hierarchically • Working with Cross-Tab Reports Understanding How Cross-Tabs Affect Your Data Creating a Cross-Tab Report Creating a Cross-Tab with Multiple Rows or Columns Applying a Formatting Style to the Cross-Tab Customizing the Cross-Tab Format Changing Background Colors Formatting Individual Cells Changing the Summary Operation Suppressing Rows, Columns or Totals Repeating Row Heading for Multi-Page Cross-Tabs Using Alias Names for Column and Row Headings Charting Cross-Tabs Customizing Cross-Tab Group Names CurrentFieldValue • Report Alerts What are Report Alerts Creating Report Alerts Basing Report Formulas or Conditional Formatting on Report Alerts Creative Usage for Report Alerts • Appendix A: Report Templates What is a Report Template Standard Report Creation Wizard and Templates The Template Expert Applying a Template and the Consequences Template Considerations Creating Your Own Templates Inserting Template Fields Formatting Template Fields Giving Template Fields a Value • Appendix B: The Northwind 2008 Database • Appendix C: Installation and System Requirements Installing the Application Minimum Installation Requirements • Appendix D: Setup Instructions for Crystal Reports 2008 Crystal Reports 2008 Application Installation Instructions Installing Required Class Files • Appendix E: Function and Operator Locations • Appendix F: Glossary Contact us for course schedules or more information. |
