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Training Course Summary:

Course Overview

This course is designed for the novice Crystal Reports user who need to become proficient in creating and modifying reports.

Who Should Attend

Course participants who want to learn the basics of report design using Crystal Reports.

What You Will Learn

This course will enable course participants to:

Add database fields to a report
Determine record selection
Sort, group and summarise
Create formulas
Build charts.




Pre-requisites



Course participants need to be proficient with Windows point-and-click techniques.



Follow-up Courses


Crystal Reports 8.5 Part 2
Crystal Reports 8.5 Part 3

Course Content

Report Design Concepts

Planning the content of the report
Manipulating the data
Determining printing area characteristics
Developing a prototype on paper

Report Design
Creating a new report
Exploring the report design environment
Placing objects on your report
Previewing and saving your report

Record Selection
Using the Select Expert
Understanding saved vs. refreshed data
Setting additional selection criteria
Modifying record selection with the Formula Editor
Applying record selection on Date fields

Sorting, Grouping, and Summarising
Sorting and grouping records
Modifying groups
Creating nested or multiple groups
Reordering groups
Summarising
Using Grand Totals

Formatting for Presentation Quality
Importing pre-formatted data
Inserting lines, boxes and pictures
Text objects

Linking
Defining linking concepts
Using Smart Linking

Formula Basics
Working with the Formula Editor
Applying basic date calculations
Applying Boolean formulas
Applying If-Then-Else formulas
Using Running Totals

Conditional Reporting
Using the Highlighting Expert
Using Report Alerts

Section Formatting
Formatting sections with the Section Expert
Creating a summary report

Charting
Creating a chart using the Chart Expert
Customising a chart