How To Take This Class
Course Overview
Crystal Reports 2011 enhances report building and report processing techniques with many new value-added features. In this Crystal Reports 2011 Introduction Training course, students will create a basic report by connecting to a database and modifying its presentation.
Course Prerequisites
Students should have experience navigating in a Windows environment. Some experience with Microsoft Access or an understanding of database concepts is also helpful.
Course Audience
This course is designed for persons who need output from a database. In some cases, database programs have limited reporting tools, and/or such tools may not be accessible. Students may or may not have programming and/or SQL experience.
What You'll Learn
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Explore the Crystal Reports 2011 interface.
- Create a basic report and modify it.
- Use formulas for filtering data.
- Group report data.
- Enhance a report.
- Create a parameterized report.
- Distribute reports.
- Explore the Crystal Reports 2011 interface.
- Create a basic report and modify it.
- Use formulas for filtering data.
- Group report data.
- Enhance a report.
- Create a parameterized report.
- Distribute reports.
Course Duration
2 Days
Course Outline
- Exploring Crystal Reports 2011
- Crystal Reports 2011 Interface
- Report Development
- Touring Crystal Reports
- Toolbar Overview
- Program Customization
- Viewing a Sample Report
- Report Layout
- Navigation Tabs
- Conditionally Formatted Fields
- Grouping
- Subtotals
- Design Tab
- Preview Tab
- Close the report
- Creating and Modifying Reports
- Creating a Report
- Defining a Report
- Data Sources
- Creating a Report
- The Database Expert Tool
- Exploring the Design tab
- Report Sections
- Adding Fields to a Report
- Adjusting Field Position and Size
- Resizing Fields
- Moving Fields
- Previewing Field Data
- Aligning Field Data
- Selecting Fields
- Aligning Fields
- Creating a Text Object
- Saving the Report
- Saving the Data with the Report
- Previewing Report Data
- Preview Data Methods
- Navigating the Previewed Data
- Locally Stored Data
- Formatting Number-based Fields
- Formatting Introduction
- Accessing the Formatting Options for a Field
- Formatting Numbers
- Formatting Currency
- Formatting Date and Time
- Grouping, Sorting and Filtering
- The Importance of Grouping Records
- The Group Expert
- Sorting Records with the Record Sort Expert
- Filtering Records with the Select Expert
- The Stages of Filtering
- Select Expert Filter Methods
- Implementing Record Filters with the Select Expert
- Filtering Records with Multiple Criteria
- Modifying Existing Filter Criteria
- Deleting Filter Criteria
- Changing Multiple Filter Criteria Logic
- Creating Group Summary Calculations
- Summary Operators
- Grand Totals
- Group Totals
- Cleaning Up the Report
- Calculating Percentages in Summaries
- Sorting Groups According to Subtotal Rankings
- Additional Formmatting Objects
- Adding Lines
- Accessing the Formatting Options for a Line
- Adding Vertical Lines to a Report
- Adding Boxes
- Accessing the Formatting Options for a Box
- Inserting Graphics
- Formatting Page Options
- Printer Options
- Page Options
- Margins
- Combine Fields with Text Objects
- Insert Special Fields
- Special Fields
- Document Properties
- Working with Formulas
- Creating a Formula
- Crystal Formula Syntax
- Formula components and syntax
- The Formula Workshop
- Toolbars
- Workshop Tree
- Formula Editor
- Tables and Fields
- Functions
- Operators
- Simple Formulas
- Checking for Syntax Errors in Formulas
- Recycling Formula Fields
- Handling NULL Values
- Crystal Reports – How Nulls are handled
- Handling Nulls via formulas
- Working with Multiple Tables
- Understanding Database Components
- Fields
- Tables
- Records
- Keys
- Joining Tables and Join Types
- Outer Join
- Inner Join
- Left Join
- Right Join
- Adding Multiple Tables with the Database Expert
- Linking Multiple Tables
- Conditional Formatting
- Formatting Section Behavior
- Common Tab
- Paging Tab
- Color Tab
- Layout Tab
- Formatting Sections with Conditional Logic
- Suppressing Sections Conditionally
- Hiding vs. Suppressing
- Formatting Fields Conditionally
- Summary Reports and Charting
- Creating a Summary Report
- Hide: (Drill-Down OK)
- Suppress (No Drill-Down)
- Utilizing Drill-Down to View Report Details
- Creating Charts with the Chart Expert
- Placing and Sizing Charts
- Formatting and Editing Charts
- The Data Tab
- The Type Tab
- The Axes Tab
- The Options Tab
- The Color Highlight Tab
- The Text Tab
- Modifying Existing Charts
- Zooming In and Out on Charts
- Formatting Individual Chart Objects
- Chart Expert
- Format Chart
- Format Background
- Chart Options
- Auto-Arrange
- Exporting Reports
- The Need to Export
- Export Types
- Export Formats
- Character Separated Values
- Crystal Reports (RPT)
- RPTR
- RTF
- Microsoft Excel
- HTML (3.2 and 4.0)
- PDF (Portable Document Format)
- Text
- Microsoft Word
- XML
- Record Style – Column with spaces
- Record Style – Column without spaces
- Report Definition
- Export Destinations
- Application
- Disk File
- Exchange Folder
- MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface)
- Previewing with HTML
- Exploring Crystal Reports 2011
- Crystal Reports 2011 Interface
- Report Development
- Touring Crystal Reports
- Toolbar Overview
- Program Customization
- Viewing a Sample Report
- Report Layout
- Navigation Tabs
- Conditionally Formatted Fields
- Grouping
- Subtotals
- Design Tab
- Preview Tab
- Close the report
- Creating and Modifying Reports
- Creating a Report
- Defining a Report
- Data Sources
- Creating a Report
- The Database Expert Tool
- Exploring the Design tab
- Report Sections
- Adding Fields to a Report
- Adjusting Field Position and Size
- Resizing Fields
- Moving Fields
- Previewing Field Data
- Aligning Field Data
- Selecting Fields
- Aligning Fields
- Creating a Text Object
- Saving the Report
- Saving the Data with the Report
- Previewing Report Data
- Preview Data Methods
- Navigating the Previewed Data
- Locally Stored Data
- Formatting Number-based Fields
- Formatting Introduction
- Accessing the Formatting Options for a Field
- Formatting Numbers
- Formatting Currency
- Formatting Date and Time
- Grouping, Sorting and Filtering
- The Importance of Grouping Records
- The Group Expert
- Sorting Records with the Record Sort Expert
- Filtering Records with the Select Expert
- The Stages of Filtering
- Select Expert Filter Methods
- Implementing Record Filters with the Select Expert
- Filtering Records with Multiple Criteria
- Modifying Existing Filter Criteria
- Deleting Filter Criteria
- Changing Multiple Filter Criteria Logic
- Creating Group Summary Calculations
- Summary Operators
- Grand Totals
- Group Totals
- Cleaning Up the Report
- Calculating Percentages in Summaries
- Sorting Groups According to Subtotal Rankings
- Additional Formmatting Objects
- Adding Lines
- Accessing the Formatting Options for a Line
- Adding Vertical Lines to a Report
- Adding Boxes
- Accessing the Formatting Options for a Box
- Inserting Graphics
- Formatting Page Options
- Printer Options
- Page Options
- Margins
- Combine Fields with Text Objects
- Insert Special Fields
- Special Fields
- Document Properties
- Working with Formulas
- Creating a Formula
- Crystal Formula Syntax
- Formula components and syntax
- The Formula Workshop
- Toolbars
- Workshop Tree
- Formula Editor
- Tables and Fields
- Functions
- Operators
- Simple Formulas
- Checking for Syntax Errors in Formulas
- Recycling Formula Fields
- Handling NULL Values
- Crystal Reports – How Nulls are handled
- Handling Nulls via formulas
- Working with Multiple Tables
- Understanding Database Components
- Fields
- Tables
- Records
- Keys
- Joining Tables and Join Types
- Outer Join
- Inner Join
- Left Join
- Right Join
- Adding Multiple Tables with the Database Expert
- Linking Multiple Tables
- Conditional Formatting
- Formatting Section Behavior
- Common Tab
- Paging Tab
- Color Tab
- Layout Tab
- Formatting Sections with Conditional Logic
- Suppressing Sections Conditionally
- Hiding vs. Suppressing
- Formatting Fields Conditionally
- Summary Reports and Charting
- Creating a Summary Report
- Hide: (Drill-Down OK)
- Suppress (No Drill-Down)
- Utilizing Drill-Down to View Report Details
- Creating Charts with the Chart Expert
- Placing and Sizing Charts
- Formatting and Editing Charts
- The Data Tab
- The Type Tab
- The Axes Tab
- The Options Tab
- The Color Highlight Tab
- The Text Tab
- Modifying Existing Charts
- Zooming In and Out on Charts
- Formatting Individual Chart Objects
- Chart Expert
- Format Chart
- Format Background
- Chart Options
- Auto-Arrange
- Exporting Reports
- The Need to Export
- Export Types
- Export Formats
- Character Separated Values
- Crystal Reports (RPT)
- RPTR
- RTF
- Microsoft Excel
- HTML (3.2 and 4.0)
- PDF (Portable Document Format)
- Text
- Microsoft Word
- XML
- Record Style – Column with spaces
- Record Style – Column without spaces
- Report Definition
- Export Destinations
- Application
- Disk File
- Exchange Folder
- MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface)
- Previewing with HTML
