Intermediate Crystal Reports Overview
Accelebrate's Intermediate Crystal Reports course enriches your basic report writing skills and moves you into developing more intricate reports. Attendees learn how to build parameterized reports, sub-reports, charts, and cross-tabulation reports, as well as use conditions to control the formatting of your reports.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Use Sections to improve formatting
- Keep running totals
- Work with parameters
- Features of advanced formulas
- Create Sub reports
- Create and work with custom Groups
- Work with Cross Tab Reports
- Create Report Alerts
Prerequisites
All attendees must be familiar with the basics of Crystal Reports, as taught in Accelebrate's Introduction to Crystal Reports class.
Outline
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Introduction
Using Parameters
- Creating Parameters
- Optional Parameters
- Using a List of Parameter Values
- Dynamic List of Values
- Cascading List of Values
- Multivalue Parameters
- Range Parameter
Using Subreports
- Unlinked Subreports
- Linked Subreports
Charts
- Adding a Chart to a Report
Cross-Tabulation Reports
- Creating a Cross-Tab Subreport
Advanced Techniques
- Special Fields
- Using the If Statement
- Using the Select Case Statement
- Conditional Formatting
- Alternating Row Formatting
Conclusion
Training Materials
All students receive comprehensive courseware covering all topics in the course.
Software Requirements
- A recent version of Windows (Windows 10 recommended), with the latest service pack updates and at least 8 GB of RAM
- Crystal Reports with the latest updates installed
- Web browser
- Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing PDF documents
- Optional: Microsoft Excel and Access, version 2007 or later
