Crystal Reports 9.0: Level 2

Course Specifications

Course number: 085514
Software: Crystal Reports
Course length: 2.0 day(s)

Course Description

Welcome back to Crystal Reports 9.0. Since you've probably completed the first course, or are familiar with the basics of building and modifying reports, you're ready to move ahead to create complex reports and data sources using Crystal's tools. In this course, you'll not only learn how to create more sophisticated reports like subreports and cross-tabs, you'll also learn how to increase the speed and efficiency of your reports by using SQL queries and dictionaries.

Course Objective: You will create complex reports and data sources using Crystal's tools.

Target Student: This course is designed for people who know how to create basic list and group reports and need to create reports that include subreports, cross-tabs, advanced formulas, and charts based on more than one data series. They may also need to build tools to make it easier for other people to create reports. They may or may not have programming and/or SQL experience.

Prerequisites: Crystal Reports 9.0: Level 1, and knowledge of programming and/or SQL would be helpful.

Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• create running totals in a report.
• build cross-tabs in your report.
• add subreports to a report.
• improve processing speed in your reports.
• build a dictionary.
• chart single and multiple data series.
• report from Excel data.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Creating Running Totals

Topic 1A: Create a Running Total Field

Topic 1B: Modify a Running Total Field

Topic 1C: Create a Manual Running Total on Detail Data

Topic 1D: Create a Manual Running Total on Summary Data

 

Lesson 2: Building Cross-tabs in Your Report

Topic 2A: Create a Cross-tab

Topic 2B: Create a Specified Group Order

Topic 2C: Filter Cross-tab by Group

Topic 2D: Change the Cross-tab Format

Topic 2E: Format Rows and Columns

Topic 2F: Keep Groups Together

 

Lesson 3: Adding Subreports

Topic 3A: Insert a Subreport

Topic 3B: Link a Subreport to Data in a Primary Report

Topic 3C: Edit a Subreport

Topic 3D: Format a Subreport Object

Topic 3E: Share Formulas Between Main and Subreports

Topic 3F: Create an On-demand Subreport

 

Lesson 4: Improving Report Processing Speed

Topic 4A: Create a SQL Expression

Topic 4B: Select Records on the Server

Topic 4C: Write a SQL Query

Topic 4D: Edit a SQL Query

Topic 4E: Build a Report on a SQL Query

Topic 4F: Create SQL Commands in the Crystal Report Environment

 

Lesson 5: Building Dictionaries

Topic 5A: Create a Dictionary

Topic 5B: Organize the View of Data in a Dictionary

Topic 5C: Adding Graphics to the Dictionary

Topic 5D: Build a Report Based on a Dictionary

 

Lesson 6: Charting Data

Topic 6A: Create a Chart

Topic 6B: Modify a Chart

Topic 6C: Create a Top N Chart

Topic 6D: Format a Chart

Topic 6E: Create a Chart Template

 

Lesson 7: Reporting on Excel Data

Topic 7A: Create a Report

Topic 7B: Modify a Report

Topic 7C: Update the Report

 

Appendix A: Inserting a Geographic Map

Supplemental Lesson

Topic 1A: Insert a Map