Crystal Reports Version 10 Advanced — A 2-Day Course

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Course Synopsis

Since you've probably completed the first course, or are familiar with the basics of building and modifying reports, you're ready to move ahead to create complex reports and data sources using Crystal Reports' tools. In this course, you'll not only learn how to create more sophisticated reports like subreports and cross-tabs, you'll also learn how to increase the speed and efficiency of your reports by using SQL queries and dictionaries.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, students should be able to:

• Create running totals in a report
• Build cross-tabs in your report
• Add subreports to a report
• Design a report that uses a drill-down
• Improve processing speed in your reports
• Chart single and multiple data series
• Report from Excel data.

Intended Audience

This course is designed for people who know how to create basic list and group reports and need to create reports that include subreports, cross-tabs, advanced formulas, and charts based on more than one data series. They may also need to build tools to make it easier for other people to create reports. They may or may not have programming and/or SQL experience.

Course Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students should have:

• Completed Crystal Reports 10 Level 1
• Ideally some knowledge of programming and/or SQL

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Outline Course Contents

Creating Running Totals

• Create a Running Total Field
• Modify a Running Total Field
• Create a Manual Running Total on Detail Data
• Create a Manual Running Total on Summary Data

Building Cross-tabs in Your Report

• Create a Cross-tab
• Create a Specified Group Order
• Filter a Cross-tab by Group
• Change the Cross-tab Format
• Conditionally Format Rows and Columns
• Keep Groups Together

Adding Subreports

• Insert a Subreport
• Link a Subreport to Data in a Primary Report
• Edit a Subreport
• Format a Subreport Using the Format Editor
• Share Formulas Between Main and Subreports
• Create an On-demand Subreport

Creating Drill-downs

• Create a Drill-down
• Create Separate Headings for Drill-down Data

Enhancing Report Processing Using SQL

• Create a Report Using SQL Queries
• Summarize Report Data Using SQL Aggregate Functions
• Create Joins Using SQL
• Create Subqueries
• Create an SQL Expression Field to Promote Server-side Processing

Charting Data

• Create a Bar Chart
• Modify a Chart
• Create a Top N Chart
• Format a Chart
• Create a Chart Template

Reporting on Excel Data

• Create a Report Based on Excel Data
• Modify a Report Generated from Excel Data
• Update Data in a Report Based on Excel Data