Integra Solutions, Inc. - Crystal Reports XI: Report Design II

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Course Description

Crystal Reports 2008:
Report Design III - Report Processing Strategies

Description: This one-day instructor-led course is designed to give students the comprehensive skills and in-depth knowledge required to plan and create reports that will help them analyze and interpret important information.

After completing the course, students will be able to:

Describe report processing
Use Subreports
Create complex formulas
Use custom functions
Use XML and Web Services data

Audience: This course is designed for report designers responsible for creating and distributing reports.

Duration: 1 day

Prerequisites: In this course you will be working intensively with Crystal Reports. To successfully understand the content and complete the activities, you must already have taken:

Report Design I – Fundamentals of Report Design
Report Design II – Business Reporting Solutions

If you have taken a previous version of either course listed above, you should have completed Crystal Reports 2008: Quickstart.

Topics Covered:

Describe Report Processing

Use Multipass reporting
Use evaluation time functions
Use a dynamic array

Create Complex Formulas

Use print state functions
Use loop control structures
Use loop control structures with arrays
Delete and store a user object

Use Custom Functions

Describe a custom function
Use custom functions

Use Subreports

Define subreports
Create an unlinked subreport
Create a linked subreport
Create an on-demand subreport
Use shared variables with subreports
Link “unlinkable” data with subreports
Describe alternate solutions to using subreports

Use XML and Web Services Data

Use XML and Web Services data
Use a transform in XML exporting