Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design III - Business Processing Strategies
Duration 1 Day
AudienceCrystal Reports 2008® is a powerful, dynamic, actionable reporting solution that helps you design, explore, visualize, and deliver reports via the web or embedded in enterprise applications. This one-day instructor-led 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 sub reports will help you make more effective report design decisions and create more efficient reports.
Prerequisites
  • 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.
SynopsisCrystal Reports 2008 is a powerful, dynamic, actionable reporting solution that helps you design, explore, visualize, and deliver reports via the web or embedded in enterprise applications. This one-day instructor-led 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 sub reports will help you make more effective report design decisions and create more efficient reports.
Objectives
TopicsLesson #1 - Report Processing
  • Use multi-pass reporting
  • Use evaluation time functions
  • Use a dynamic array

    Lesson #2 - Using Sub reports
  • Define sub reports
  • Create an unlinked sub report
  • Create a linked sub report
  • Create an on-demand sub report
  • Use shared variables with sub reports
  • Link “unlinkable” data with sub reports
  • Describe alternate solutions to using sub reports

    Lesson #3 - Creating Complex Formulas
  • Use Print State functions
  • Use loop control structures
  • Use loop control structures with arrays

    Lesson #4 - Using Custom Functions
  • Describe a custom function
  • Use custom functions

    Lesson #5 - Using XML and Web Services Data
  • Use XML and web services data
  • Use a transform in XML exporting
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