Crystal Reports Training Courses

Training on Crystal Reports by Tectist Inc

Course Content:

Level 1: Creating our first report

• Installing Crystal Reports
• Running Crystal Reports, and adding a Data Source
• Creating our first report
• Altering our report, and saving it.

Level 2: Diving in deeper

• Opening and saving, and updating data source location
• Data sources - in detail
• Creating a report from scratch - adding fields
• Sorting results
• Grouping
• Manage groups
• Filtering (or Select Expert)
• Exercise - Creating a detailed, filtered, sorted, grouped report

Level 3: Formatting

• Formatting dialog box
• Formatting - colors, borders and fonts
• Common formatting, including suppress
• Formatting text (and boolean fields)
• Formatting numbers
• Formatting dates and times
• Adding objects
• Formatting graphics
• Aligning and resizing objects
• Adding additional sections
• Formatting sections

Level 4: Parameters

• The problem
• The solution - Introducing the parameter
• Parameter Options
• Text parameters

Level 5: Graphs, charts and all manner of diagrams

• Let's insert a chart
• Chart Options
• Different types of charts 1
• Different Types of Charts 2
• Context of charts

Level 6: Subreports

• Subreports - an introduction
• Drill down
• Designing a subreport using a Cross-tab
• Creating linked subreports

Formulas:

• Creating formulas
• Special fields
• If...
• Boolean logic and other Control Structures
• Text functions
• Mathematical functions
• Summary functions
• Date formulas
• Solving our subreport problem
• Using parameters for conditional formatting