Crystal Reports 10: Combo

Course length: 3 days

Prerequisites: Before taking this course, students should be familiar with the basic functions of their computer's operating system such as creating folders, opening programs, and working with windows. Students should have basic Windows application skills, such as copying and pasting objects, formatting text, saving files, etc. Students should have a basic understanding of database concepts.

What is Crystal Reports Combo?
Crystal Reports 10: Combo is a combination of Crystal Reports 10 Levels 1 and 2 covered over a 3 day period.

  • Level 1: The primary recommended course you should take if your job responsibilities require you to obtain output from databases. In this portion of the course, you will build basic list and group reports that work with almost any database.

  • Level 2: In this portion of the course, you'll not only learn how to create more sophisticated reports like sub reports and cross-tabs, you'll also learn how to increase the speed and efficiency of your reports by using SQL queries and dictionaries.


COURSE CONTENT

LEVEL 1

LEVEL 2

Lesson 1: Creating a Report

Lesson 1: Creating Running Totals

Topic 1A: Set Default Report Settings

Topic 1A: Create a Running Total Field

Topic 1B: Specify Fields for a New Report

Topic 1B: Modify a Running Total Field

Topic 1C: Preview the Report

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

Topic 1D: Modify Field Display

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

Topic 1E: Add a Report Title

 

Topic 1F: Position Fields

Lesson 2: Building Cross-tabs in Your Report

Topic 1G: Add Fields from Additional Tables

Topic 2A: Create a Cross-tab

 

Topic 2B: Create a Specified Group Order

Lesson 2: Displaying Specific Report Data

Topic 2C: Filter a Cross-tab by Group

Topic 2A: Find Data

Topic 2D: Change the Cross-tab Format

Topic 2B: Sort Data

Topic 2E: Conditionally Format Rows and Columns

Topic 2C: Filter Data by Single Criteria

Topic 2F: Keep Groups Together

 

 

Lesson 3: Grouping Report Data

Lesson 3: Adding Subreports

Topic 3A: Insert a Group

Topic 3A: Insert a Subreport

Topic 3B: Add Summaries

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

Topic 3C: Format Summary Information

Topic 3C: Edit a Subreport

Topic 3D: Change Group Options

Topic 3D: Format a Subreport Using the Format Editor

Topic 3E: Add an Additional Group

Topic 3E: Share Formulas Between Main and Subreports

Topic 3F: Filter by Group

Topic 3F: Create an On-demand Subreport

Topic 3G: Create a Top N Sort Group

 

 

Lesson 4: Creating Drill-downs

Lesson 4: Building Formulas

Topic 4A: Create a Drill-down

Topic 4A: Write a Formula

Topic 4B: Create Separate Headings for Drill-down Data

Topic 4B: Edit a Formula

 

Topic 4C: Group by Formula

Lesson 5: Enhancing Report Processing Using SQL

Topic 4D: Delete a Formula

Topic 5A: Create a Report Using SQL Queries

Topic 4E: Build a Filter by Multiple Criteria

Topic 5B: Summarize Report Data Using SQL Aggregate Functions

Topic 4F: Modify a Filter with Multiple Criteria to Create an OR Condition

Topic 5C: Create Joins Using SQL

Topic 4G: Create a Parameter Field

Topic 5D: Create Subqueries

Topic 4H: Write a Formula that Incorporates Null Fields

Topic 5E: Create an SQL Expression Field to Promote Server-side Processing

 

 

Lesson 5: Formatting Reports

Lesson 6: Charting Data

Topic 5A: Remove White Space

Topic 6A: Create a Bar Chart

Topic 5B: Insert Page Header/Footer Data

Topic 6B: Modify a Chart

Topic 5C: Add Borders and Lines

Topic 6C: Create a Top N Chart

Topic 5D: Change the Background Color

Topic 6D: Format a Chart

Topic 5E: Change the Margins

Topic 6E: Create a Chart Template

 

 

Lesson 6: Enhancing Reports

Lesson 7: Reporting on Excel Data

Topic 6A: Create a Section to Contain a Watermark

Topic 7A: Create a Report Based on Excel Data

Topic 6B: Insert Objects Using Object Linking and Embedding

Topic 7B: Modify a Report Generated from Excel Data

Topic 6C: Modify Format Based on Data Value

Topic 7C: Update Data in a Report Based on Excel Data

Topic 6D: Conditionally Suppress Data

 

Topic 6E: Insert Hyperlinks

Supplemental Lesson

Topic 6F: Hide Blank Report Sections

Topic 1A: Insert a Map

 

 

Lesson 7: Creating and Modifying Pie Charts

 

Topic 7A: Create a Pie Chart with a Drill-down

 

Topic 7B: Modify Chart Text

 

Topic 7C: Format a Chart

 

Topic 7D: Present a Chart by Group

 

 

 

Lesson 8: Distributing Data

 

Topic 8A: Export to PDF

 

Topic 8B: Export to Excel

 

Topic 8C: Export to an Access Database

 

Topic 8D: Create a Report Definition

 

Topic 8E: Create Mailing Labels

 
 
 

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