Introduction to Crystal Reports Course
Course Duration:
Two Days
Our introduction to Crystal Reports training course is suitable for complete beginners to Crystal Reports and for anyone involved in creating reports from stored data. During the Crystal Reports training course you will gain practical experience using Crystal Reports to connect to existing databases, retrieve raw data, format the data, create and present meaningful reports and distribute data by various methods. The Crystal Reports training course will also show you how to create advanced graphical and crosstab reports, connect to data sources natively, via ODBC and OLE BD and Add calculations and program logic with the Formula Workshop. Those who complete the Crystal Reports course satisfactorily will receive a certificate at the end of the computer training course.
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Course Level:
Introduction
Course Requirements:
An understanding of the design and implementation of relational databases. A good working knowledge of Excel will be assumed.
Course Content:
Overview of Crystal Reports
Creating Basic Reports
• Planning and creating
• Design environment
• Positioning and sizing objects
• Formatting objects
• Adding text and graphics
• Using special fields
• Understanding the save procedure
Record Selection
• Using the Select Expert
• Selecting additional criteria
• Modifying record selection with the formula editor
•Sorting records
Grouping Features
• Creating a group
• Modifying groups
• Applying specified order
• Using the TopN feature
Inserting Summaries, Subtotals, and Grand Totals
Working with Links
• Defining linking concepts
• Using a smart link
Working with the Formula Editor
• Basic calculations
• String manipulation
• Date calculations
• If –Then-Else formulas
• Running Totals
Formating
• Combining text objects with database and special fields
• Conditional formatting
• Formatting sections
• Manually
• Using the expert
Creating Charts
• Using the expert
• Customising a chart
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