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Course Title:
Crystal Reports XI Report Design II

Duration: 2 days

Course Overview
Business Reporting Solutions

This course is designed to give learners comprehensive skills and in-depth knowledge to plan and create reports that will help them analyse and interpret information.
As a business benefit, learners will find that their increased understanding of formulas, variables, arrays, templates, parameters, summaries, and sections will help them make more effective report design decisions and create more efficient reports.

Target Audience


The target audience for this course is report designers who are responsible for creating and distributing reports and have completed Report Design I.

Course Objectives


What will I learn?
• Use the repository
• Create complex formulas
• Manage reports
• Use variables and arrays
• Create templates
• Build parameterised reports
• Summarise data with cross-tabs
• Use report sections
• Build specialised reports

Prerequisites


Learners who attend this course should have completed Report Design I.
To be successful, learners who attend this course must have working knowledge of:
• Windows conventions
• Basic database concepts
• Experience using web browser

Course Content


Report Creation Review
• Using your Crystal Reports knowledge

Using the Repository
• Using the repository
• Creating a report from a repository data source

Creating Formulas
• Using functions and operators
• Defining control structures available in Crystal Reports Syntax

Managing Reports
• Using the Workbench
• Publishing reports to BusinessObjects Enterprise

Using Variables and Arrays
• Using variables
• Using arrays

Building Parameterised Reports
• Defining and creating parameters
• Building a report with multiple parameters
• Using edit masks and descriptions
• Creating a date range parameter
• Grouping using parameters

Using Report Templates
• Applying report templates
• Building a template without a data source
• Removing a template

Summarising Data with Cross-Tabs
• Building a basic cross-tab
• Formatting a cross-tab

Using Report Sections
• Using sections
• Using group related functions to format sections
• Using section underlay
• Using multiple column reporting

Building Specialised Reports
• Using the Running Total Expert
• Creating a form letter
• Adding a hyperlink to a report
• Using Dynamic Graphic Locations
• Building a report with alerts
• Building a top N report



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