Crystal Reports Training: Intermediate Crystal Reports 2008

Course Number: CR-101
Duration: 2 days
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Crystal Reports 2008 Training Overview

Accelebrate's Crystal Reports Training: Intermediate Crystal Reports 2008 teaches attendees the skills they need to enhance basic report writing and to create more complex reports. Students master professional design, best practice techniques, sub-reporting and advanced formulas.

Accelebrate also offers an Advanced Crystal Reports 2008 training class.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/?action=course&page=CRY201.

Crystal Reports 2008 Training Prerequisites

All attendees should have basic familiarity with at least one relational database such as Microsoft Access, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, or DB2. Students should have completed Accelebrate's Introduction to Crystal Reports 2008 training or have the equivalent experience.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This course is more than 60% hands-on, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 20 minutes.

Crystal Reports 2008 Training Materials

All Crystal Reports 2008 training students receive comprehensive courseware covering all topics taught and a copy of Crystal Reports 2008: The Complete Reference.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Windows XP or later with at least 2GB RAM
Crystal Reports 2008
Microsoft Office 2007 or later, including Access
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Crystal Reports 2008 Training Objectives

All attendees will be able to:

Format multiple sections in Reports
Apply Parameter Fields to Reports
Use advanced formula features
Create Subreports
Create Custom Groups
Work with Cross-Tab Reports
Apply Report Templates for additional formatting

Crystal Reports 2008 Training Outline

Introduction

Review

Planning a Report
Creating the Report
Placing Fields on the Report
Creating Formulas
Advanced Grouping
Selecting Certain Records
Helpful Hints for Formatting the Report
Adding and Working with Text Objects
Hiding and Suppressing Sections
Guidelines

Power Formatting with Multiple Sections

Using Multiple Sections in Reports
Using the Section Expert to Work with Sections
Conditionally Formatting Multiple Sections

Using the Running Totals Feature

Understanding Running Totals
Creating Running Totals for a List of Numbers
Conditional Running Totals

Prompting with Parameters

Parameter Fields Overview
Parameter Field Considerations
Creating a Parameter Field
Using a Parameter to Select Records
Using a Parameter Field
Using the Parameter Panel
Creating a Dynamic Value List for Parameter Values
Importing a Pick List
Adding Parameter Values to Text Objects
Allowing Multiple Values in Parameters
Using Multiple Parameter Fields in Reports
Specifying and Limiting a Range for a Parameter
Using Parameters in Conditional Formatting
Using an Edit Mask to Limit String Parameters
Sorting with a Parameter
Group Sorting with a Parameter
Using a Parameter to set N in a Top N or Bottom N Report
Displaying Parameter Fields
Cascading Parameter Fields

Using Advanced Formula Features

How Crystal Reports Processes the Data
What is a Pass?
Using Evaluation Time Functions
Working with Variables
Declaring a Variable
Assigning a Value to a Variable
Using a Variable in a Formula
Variable Scope
Separating Statements in Complex Formulas
Working with Arrays
Understanding the Formula Evaluation Time Debugger

Using Subreporting as a Workaround Solution

Understanding Subreports
Unlinked verses Linked Subreports
Creating an Unlinked Subreport
Linking a Subreport
Database Links versus Subreports in One-to-Many Situations
Formatting the Subreport
Passing Data from the Main Report into a Subreport
Creating On-Demand Subreports
Creating Hyperlinks
Using Subreports to Link "Unlinkable" Data

Creating Powerful Groups

Creating Custom Groups
Customizing Group Sort Order
Using Group Selection to Filter the Records in the Report
Grouping on a Formula Field
Grouping Hierarchically

Working with Cross-Tab Reports

Understanding How Cross-Tabs Affect Your Data
Creating a Cross-Tab Report
Creating a Cross-Tab with Multiple Rows or Columns
Applying a Formatting Style to the Cross-Tab
Customizing the Cross-Tab Format
Changing Background Colors
Formatting Individual Cells
Changing the Summary Operation
Suppressing Rows, Columns or Totals
Repeating Row Heading for Multi-Page Cross-Tabs
Using Alias Names for Column and Row Headings
Charting Cross-Tabs
Customizing Cross-Tab Group Names
CurrentFieldValue

Report Alerts

What are Report Alerts
Creating Report Alerts
Basing Report Formulas or Conditional Formatting on Report Alerts
Creative Usage for Report Alerts

Report Templates

What is a Report Template
Standard Report Creation Wizard and Templates
The Template Expert
Applying a Template and the Consequences
Template Considerations
Creating Your Own Templates
Inserting Template Fields
Formatting Template Fields
Giving Template Fields a Value

The Northwind 2008 Database

Setup Instructions, Installation and System Requirements for Crystal Reports 2008

Function and Operator Locations

Conclusion

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