BOC320 - Crystal Reports 2008 Report Design II: Business Reporting Solutions
Duration: 2 daysDelivery TypeAudience- The target audience for this course is report designers who are responsible for creating and distributing reports and have completed Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design I - Fundamentals of Report Design.
Prerequisites:Essential - Prerequisite Education:
- You should have completed Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design I -
- Fundamentals of Report Design. If you have taken a previous version of
- Report Design I - Fundamentals of Report Design, then you should have
- completed Crystal Reports 2008: Quickstart.
- Prerequisite Knowledge/Experience (To be successful, you must have working knowledge of:
- Windows conventions
- Basic database concepts
- Experience using a web browser
Goals- Crystal 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 two-day instructor-led course is designed to give you comprehensive skills and in-depth knowledge to plan and create reports that will help you analyze and interpret information.
- As a business benefit, you will be able to increase your understanding of formulas, variables, arrays, templates, parameters, summaries, and sections.
- This course will also help you make more effective report design decisions and create more efficient reports.
Course Based on Software ReleaseContent- Using the Repository
- Use the repository
- Create a report from a repository data source
- Creating Formulas
- Use functions and operators
- Define control structures available in Crystal Reports Syntax
- Managing Reports
- Use the Workbench
- Publish reports to BusinessObjects Enterprise
- Using Variables and Arrays
- Using Report Templates
- Apply report templates
- Build a template without a data source
- Remove a template
- Building Parameterized Reports
- Define and create parameters
- Build a report with multiple parameters
- Use edit masks and descriptions
- Create a date range parameter
- Group using parameters
- Summarizing Data with Crosstabs
- Build a basic crosstab
- Format a crosstab
- Using Report Sections
- Use sections
- Use group related functions to format sections
- Use section underlay
- Use multiple-column reporting
- Building Specialized Reports
- Use the Running Total Expert
- Create a form letter
- Add a hyperlink to a report
- Use Dynamic Graphic Locations
- Build a report with alerts
- Build a top N report
- Integrate an Xcelsius Flash SWF into a Crystal report
Notes- Additional Education (To increase your skill level and knowledge of Crystal Reports, the following courses are recommended:)
- Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design III - Report Processing Strategies
- Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design IV - Optimizing Report Data
- Applicable Certification
- This is a recommended course for the Business Objects Certified Professional - Crystal Reports certification.
- Additional Information
- Contact Training Manager at Affecto, phone +47 22 40 20 00
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