Training

• This 6- to 8-hour eLearning course is designed to give you comprehensive skills and in-depth knowledge required to plan and create reports that will help you analyze and interpret important information.
• As a business benefit, you will find that your increased understanding of report processing, formulas, custom functions and subreports will help you make more effective report design decisions and create more efficient reports.

• Use multi-pass reporting
• Use evaluation time functions
• Use a dynamic array

• Define subreports
• Create an unlinked subreport
• Create a linked subreport
• Create an on-demand subreport
• Use shared variables with subreports
• Link “unlinkable” data with subreports
• Describe alternate solutions to using subreports

• Use Print State functions
• Use loop control structures
• Use loop control structures with arrays

• Describe a custom function
• Use custom functions

• Use XML and web services data
• Use a transform in XML exporting

• You should have completed Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design I - Fundamentals of Report Design.
• You should have completed Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design II - Business Reporting Solutions.
• If you have taken a previous version of either Report Design I - Fundamentals of Report Design, or Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design II Business Reporting Solutions, then you should have completed Crystal Reports 2008: Quickstart.

To be successful, you must have working knowledge of:

• Windows conventions
• Basic database concepts
• Experience using a web browser
• Crystal Reports

To increase your skill level and knowledge of Crystal Reports, the following course is recommended:

• Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design IV - Optimizing Report Data