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You Will Learn How To
- Develop reports using Crystal Reports to
transform data into meaningful information
- Create advanced graphical and crosstab
reports
- Add calculations and program logic with
the Formula Workshop
- Connect to data sources natively, via ODBC
and OLE DB
- Analyze database structures and extract
the data you need to meet your reporting needs
- Deploy reports via HTML to a Web browser
or desktop application via Visual Basic and .NET
Course Benefits
With the power of this industry-leading report-writing tool,
Crystal Reports users and developers can integrate their
organization's data, making sophisticated reports readily
available to support critical business decisions. In this
hands-on course, you gain extensive experience using Crystal
Reports to connect to databases, retrieve raw data, format data,
and create and present reports for widespread distribution. You
return to your organization with a detailed process to help you
connect to data sources and create useful reports right away.
Who Should Attend
Anyone involved in creating reports from stored data.
Experience using Windows and working with a spreadsheet is
assumed.
Hands-On Training
You gain hands-on experience using Crystal Reports. Exercises
include:
- Building reports from the ground up
- Connecting to data sources natively, via
OLE DB & ODBC
- Designing a crosstab and drill-down report
- Developing a summary report with drill-down
capabilities
- Simplifying information using charts and
graphs
- Adding business logic to your report with
the formula language
- Deploying your report to a Web server for
Internet/intranet distribution
- Integrating reports with Visual Basic
- Formatting and summarizing data
- Filtering, sorting and grouping data
- Customizing reports with business logic
- Connecting to SQL Server, Oracle and
Access databases
- Adding charts and sub reports to a
report
- Selecting a format
- Adding text and fields
- Connecting to remote data sources
- Configuring the reporting environment
- Tailoring sections within a report
- Annotating header and footer fields
- Designing fields for quality
presentations
- Adding color, borders and pictures
- Highlighting data with Highlight Expert
- SQL Server
- Oracle
- Access
- Web logs
- XML
- Reporting from stored procedures and
views
- Creating a connectivity checklist
- Configuring ODBC and OLE DB
- Integrating SQL commands in a report
- Deciphering data structures
- Identifying data relationships
- Merging data from multiple tables
- Building business queries
- Optimizing data retrieval
- Sorting user sort control and grouping
- Grouping with formulas
- Summary and Rolling Total fields
- Using Report Alerts
- Embedding linked and unlinked
subreports into reports
- Creating crosstab and drill-down
reports
- Designing dynamic and cascading prompts
- Multipass reporting, Hyperlinking
Reports and Multilingual Reports
- Achieving reusability with templates
- Simplifying data with charts and graphs
- Organizing fields into sections
- Adding, merging, suppressing sections
- Working with variables and operators
- Deciphering formula syntax
- Adding and modifying formulas with the
Formula Workshop
- Calling and working with functions
- Sharing formulas with the Repository
- Building if/then/else statements
- Converting and comparing data
- Debugging the code
- Employing the Formula Workshop
- Writing formulas with Basic Syntax
- Laying a foundation for complex
reporting logic
- Deciding among Push, Pull, Static and
Dynamic reports
- Migrating to production by switching
databases
- Determining when to use the Crystal
Reports Server
- Exporting reports to HTML
- Publishing to CrystalReports.com
- Adding Crystal Reports to Visual Basic
and .NET
- Exploring application development
options with Crystal Reports
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