Prerequisites:

Essential

• * Prerequisite Education
• Not applicable for this offering.
• * Prerequisite Knowledge/Experience (To be successful, you must have
• working knowledge of:)
• Windows conventions
• Basic database concepts

Recommended

• None

Audience:

• The target audience for this course is report designers, new to Crystal Reports, who are responsible for creating and distributing reports.

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 find that this course is an in-depth approach to the entire report creation cycle from planning a report prototype to distributing a report.

Content:

• Planning a Report
• Define database concepts
• Plan and develop a report prototype
• Creating a Report
• Create a report
• Add tables
• Describe the design environment
• Insert objects on a report
• Preview a report
• Save a report
• Position and size objects
• Format objects
• Selecting Records
• Define the Select Expert
• Determine the criteria for record selection
• Understanding saved and refreshed data
• Apply record selection
• Apply additional record selection criteria
• Modify record selection
• Apply time-based record selection
• Organizing Data on a Report
• Sort records
• Group records
• Summarize data
• Formatting a Report
• Add graphical elements
• Combine text objects with database fields
• Apply specialized formatting
• Insert fields with pre-built functions
• Applying Section Formatting
• Format sections
• Create a summary report
• Creating Basic Formulas
• Define a formula and its purpose
• Create formulas
• Apply Boolean formulas
• Apply If-Then-Else formulas
• Apply date calculations
• Apply number calculations
• Apply string manipulation
• Applying Conditional Reporting
• Determine trends in data
• Format data conditionally
• Representing Data Visually
• Create a chart
• Distributing a Report
• Export a report
• Save a report to BusinessObjects™ Enterprise

Notes:

• Additional Education (To increase your skill level and knowledge of Crystal Reports, the following courses are recommended:)
• Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design II - Business Reporting Solutions
• Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design III - Report Processing Strategies
• Applicable Certification
• This is a recommended course for the Business Objects Certified Professional - Crystal Reports certification