Training Course: Crystal Decisions:Report Design II Version 8.5

Training Course Summary:

Course Overview

This course is designed to build on the topics learned in Part I to increase report design skills and discover the reporting power of Crystal Reports.

Who Should Attend

Course participants who want to further develop their basic report design skills using Crystal Reports.

What You Will Learn

This course will enable course participants to:

Create multi-table reports
Display data on maps
Build crosstabs
Build more complex formulas




Pre-requisites



Course participants must have taken the Report Design course or have three months of report design experience with Crystal Reports.



Follow-up Courses


Crystal Reports 8.5 Part 3

Course Content

Report Creation Review

Grouping Options

Creating a group selection based on summary information
Grouping on Date or Date/Time fields
Grouping data hierarchically
Using sections
Formatting sections

Formulas
Using an If-Then-Else control structure

Parameters
Defining parameter fields
Using parameter fields

Geographical Mapping
Creating a map based on summarised data
Resolving data mismatches

Cross-Tabs
Defining Cross-Tabs
Creating a Cross-Tab
Formatting Cross-Tabs
Charting on a Cross-Tab summary field
Mapping on a Cross-Tab summary field

Report Distribution
Exporting reports
Viewing reports over the Web