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APCR10.2 - Crystal Reports 10.0 Power User Workshop

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 workshop is designed for experienced Crystal Report users. The intent of the course is to increase the design skills and expand into the expert features and powerful functionality of Crystal Reports. This workshop delves into the most complex techniques used for creating reports and solving reporting problems as well as hands-on practice time with formula solutions.

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Prerequisites

Course APCR10.1, Crystal Reports 10.0 Quick Start Workshop or equivalent experience

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

Using the Running Totals Feature

Understanding Running Totals

Creating Running Totals for a List of Numbers

Conditional Running Totals

Prompting with Parameters

Parameter Fields Overview

Parameter Field Considerations

Creating a Parameter Field

Using a Parameter to Select Records

Using a Parameter Field

Creating a Pick 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 for a Parameter

Limiting the Range for a Parameter

Using Parameters in Conditional Formatting

Using an Edit Mask to Limit String Parameters

Sorting with a Parameter

Displaying Parameter Fields

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

Understanding the Formula Evaluation Time Debugger

Using Subreporting as a Workaround Solution

Understanding Subreports

Unlinked versus Linked Subreports

Creating an Unlinked Subreport

Linking a Subreport

Database Links versus Subreports in One-to-Many Situations

Formatting the Subreport

Passing Data from the Main Report into a Subreport

Creating On-Demand Subreports

Creating Hyperlinks

Using Subreports to Link "Unlinkable" Data

Creating Powerful Groups

Customizing the Group Name Field

Customizing the Group Name using Field Names and Formulas

Creating Custom Groups

Grouping on a Formula Field

Using Group Selection to Filter the Records in the Report

Grouping Hierarchically

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

Customizing Cross-Tab Group Names

CurrentFieldValue

Report Alerts

What are Report Alerts

Creating Report Alerts

Basing Report Formulas or Conditional Formatting on Report Alerts

Creative Usage for Report Alerts

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

Custom Functions

What is a Custom Function

Custom Function Arguments

When to use a Custom Function

Creating Custom Functions

Creating a Custom Function using the Custom Function Editor

Using Crystal Syntax

Using Basic Syntax

Custom Functions Properties

Using the Formula Expert and Custom Functions

Using the Formula Extractor

Custom Function Limitations

Advanced Formula Syntax

Review of If...then...else... Expressions

Select Case Statement

Immediate If Function

For Loops

While Do Loops

Join Function

The Split Function

Crystal Reports, Data Access and SQL

What is SQL?

Direct Database Driver

ODBC

OLE DB

Viewing the SQL

SQL Commands

Creating a SQL Command

Adding a Parameter to the Command

SQL Expressions

Advanced Database Concepts

Using the Database Expert for Linking

Order Links Dialog

Index Legend Dialog

Link Options Dialog

Adding and Removing Databases/Tables from the Report

Adding Tables to a Report Multiple Times

Changing the Join Type for a Link

Database Changes

Database Verification

Set DataSource Location

Re-mapping Database Fields