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APCR082 - Crystal Reports 2008 Designer Level 2

If you have any questions about registering for this class, please call (877) 832-0688 Ext. 1493 or email us at getsmart@LRS.com

This two-day workshop is designed to enhance your basic report writing skills and move you into creating more complex reports. Time will be spent walking you through the tips and tricks of advanced report writing along with a good amount of hands on practice. In addition, you will cover professional design, techniques, sub-reporting and advanced formulas. This course incorporates a number of hands on exercises that reinforce the learning process.

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Upcoming classes

	Number	Class Date	Location	Length	Cost	Sign up
	APCR082	Mar 01, 2012 - Mar 02, 2012	Springfield	2 days	$495.00	Register

Prerequisites

Successful completion of either the Designer 1 Workshop or the Pre-qualification exercise is strongly recommended

Detailed Class Syllabus

Refresher Exercise

Review of Planning a Report

Creating the Report

Placing Fields on the Report

Creating the Formulas

Advanced Grouping

Selecting Certain Records

Helpful Hints for Formatting the Report

Adding and Working with Text Objects

Hiding and Suppressing Sections

Guidelines

Power Formatting with Multiple Sections

Using Multiple Sections in Reports

Using the Section Expert to Work with Sections

Conditionally Formatting Multiple Sections

Advanced Drill Down Group Level

Challenge Exercise - Formatting with Multiple Sections

Challenge Exercise - Conditionally Formatting Multiple Sections

Using the Running Totals Feature

Understanding Running Totals

Creating Running Totals for a List of Numbers

Conditional Running Totals

Challenge Exercise - Creating Running Totals

Challenge Exercise - Creating a Conditional Running Total

Prompting with Parameters

Parameter Field Considerations

Creating a Parameter Field

Using a Parameter to Select Records

Using a Parameter Field

Using the Parameter Panel

Creating a Dynamic Value List for Parameter Values

Importing a Pick List

Adding Parameter Values to Text Objects

Allowing Multiple Values in Parameters

Using Multiple Parameter Fields in Reports

Specifying and Limiting a Range

Using Parameters in Conditional Formatting

Using an Edit Mask to Limit String Parameters

Sorting with a Parameter

Using a parameter to set N in a Top N Report

Cascading Parameters

Challenge Exercise - Using Parameters

Using Advanced Formula Features

Understanding How Crystal Reports Processes the Data

What Is a Pass?

Using Evaluation Time Functions

Working with Variables

Declaring a Variable

Assigning a Value to a Variable

Using a Variable in a Formula

Variable Scope

Separating Statements in Complex Formulas

Working with Arrays

Challenge Exercise - Understand and Set Up the YTD Comparison Report

Challenge Exercise - Declare Variables and Conditionally Assign Values to Them

Using Sub reporting as a Workaround Solution

Understanding Sub reports

Unlinked versus Linked Subreports

Creating an Unlinked Sub report

Linking a Subreport

Database Links versus Subreports in One-to-Many Situations

Creating On-Demand Subreports

Creating Hyperlinks

Using Subreports to Link "Unlinkable" Data

Challenge Exercise - Creating Reports with Linked Subreports

Creating Powerful Groups

Using the Group Expert

Using a Field Name to Customize the Group Name

Using a Formula to Customize the Group Name Field

Creating Custom Groups

Grouping on a Formula Field

Using Group Selection to Filter the Records in the Report

Grouping Hierarchically

Create Customized Grouping

Brain Teaser - Using Group Selection

Challenge Exercise - Creating a Group Using a Formula

Working with Cross-Tab Reports

Understanding How Cross-Tabs Affect Your Data

Creating a Cross-Tab Report

Creating a Cross-Tab with Multiple Rows or Columns

Applying a Formatting Style to the Cross-Tab

Customizing the Cross-Tab Format

Changing Background Colors

Formatting Individual Cells

Changing the Summary Operation

Suppressing Rows, Columns or Totals

Repeating Row Heading for Multi-Page Cross-Tabs

Using Alias Names for Column and Row Headings

Charting Cross-Tabs

Challenge Exercise - Cross-Tab Reports

Report Alerts

What are Report Alerts

Creating Report Alerts

Challenge Exercise - Using Report Alerts with Parameter

Report Templates

What is a Report template

Standard Report Creation Wizard and Templates

The Template Expert

Applying a Template and the consequences

Template Considerations

Creating Your Own Templates

Inserting Template Fields

Formatting Template Fields

Giving Template Fields a Value