Training Course: Crystal Decisions:Report Design III Version 8.5

Training Course Summary:

Course Overview

This course is designed to further increase report design skills by concentrating on advanced topics.

Who Should Attend

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

What You Will Learn

This course will enable course participants to:

Understand the architecture of Crystal Reports
Work with databases
Create further formulas
Build subreports
Export reports in XML




Pre-requisites



Course participants must have taken Parts 1 and Parts 2 or have a minimum of six months of report design experience with Crystal Reports. Relational database knowledge is recommended.



Follow-up Courses


None

Course Content

Architecture

Understanding the core components
Understanding key dynamic link libraries

Working with Databases
Accessing data sources
Adjusting to database changes

Formulas
Understanding UFLs
Understanding arrays
Using control structures

Subreports
Defining subreports
Creating an unlinked subreport
Creating a linked subreport
Creating an On-demand subreport
Using shared variables

Crystal Reports and XML
XML overview
XML in Crystal Reports
Exporting to XML format
Customising XML report definitions
XML output specifications