Training

As a business benefit, you will be able to increase your understanding of formulas, variables, arrays, templates, parameters, summaries, and sections. This course will also help you make more effective report design decisions and create more efficient reports.

• Use the repository
• Create a report from a repository data source

• Use functions and operators
• Define control structures available in Crystal Reports Syntax

• Use the Workbench
• Publish reports to BusinessObjects Enterprise

• Use variables
• Use arrays

• Apply report templates
• Build a template without a data source
• Remove a template

• Define and create parameters
• Build a report with multiple parameters
• Use edit masks and descriptions
• Create a date range parameter
• Group using parameters

• Build a basic crosstab
• Format a crosstab

• Use sections
• Use group related functions to format sections
• Use section underlay
• Use multiple-column reporting

• Use the Running Total Expert
• Create a form letter
• Add a hyperlink to a report
• Use Dynamic Graphic Locations
• Build a report with alerts
• Build a top N report
• Integrate an Xcelsius Flash SWF into a Crystal report

You should have completed Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design I - Fundamentals of Report Design. If you have taken a previous version of Report Design I - Fundamentals of Report Design, then you should have completed Crystal Reports 2008: Quickstart.

• Windows conventions
• Basic database concepts
• Experience using web browser

To increase your skill level and knowledge of Crystal Reports, the following courses are recommended:

• Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design III - Report Processing Strategies
• Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design IV - Optimizing Report Data