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Crystal Reports 2011 Introduction course
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Overview
Crystal Reports (from SAP) is a powerful reporting solution that helps you design, explore, visualise, and deliver reports. This course is designed to introduce delegates to the basic skills required to connect Crystal Reports to their databases to access data sources and generate customised reports that will better enable them to analyse and interpret data. Topics include planning a report, creating a basic report, using the Report Explorer, record selection, sorting, grouping and summarizing, charting, basic formulas and exporting data.
Audience
Anyone needing to use Crystal Reports to create and distribute reports.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, delegates will have learned how to plan, create, modify and distribute meaningful reports.
Prerequisites
Delegates must complete the tutorial in the Crystal Reports User's Guide.
Course Contents (2 days)
- 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