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Crystal Reports
XI Essentials
Interactive Instructor Based
Video Training Course
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Crystal Reports XI is a powerful report generating tool that delivers clarity and insight. With Crystal Reports XI you can visually design and customize each report, or create generic reports for mass delivery. You will learn many things such as connecting to virtually any data source and custom coding report functions with Crystal Reports XI training. Now in Crystal Reports XI, you can even design with cascading and dynamic prompts, rather than the old static prompt limitations. Crystal Reports XI offers many new dynamic features that require training to be the most effective with Crystal Reports XI. With software as powerful and profitable as Crystal Reports XI, businesses cannot afford to ignore good, knowledgeable training.
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Trainer Information:
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For over twenty years, David Smith has been developing commercial software applications and training others in software development tools and techniques. Over this time he has worked as both a staff developer and as a free-lance contractor for national and international companies. As a consultant, he has worked with clients in almost every major U.S. city, as well as Canada, Europe and Africa. His client list includes major companies such as Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq Computers, and Toys-R-Us. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, he has developed and delivered training for many training organizations, including Microsoft Authorized Training Education Centers and Learning Tree International. Much of this work involved creating distributed desktop applications in languages such as Microsoft Visual C++, Visual Basic, and Java, using development tools, such as Crystal Reports, Microsoft SQL Server, Access, and MySQL. In recent years, Mr. Smith has focused on the development of web applications, and has used every major web programming environment (JSP/Java Servlets, Active Server Pages, and PHP). He has been a contributing writer for the Ziff-Davis publication "Exploring Windows NT" and is the author of an upcoming book on the PHP certification program.
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About This Course:
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Crystal Reports can help you create flexible, high-fidelity reports and tightly integrate them into applications. Learn how the following groups of features make it a world standard for enterprise reporting.
- Data access
Access almost any kind of data with more than 35 data drivers, custom data access, and tight control over database connectivity.
- Formatting and design
Design professional-looking, interactive reports using features like the visual report designer and dynamic prompts.
- Report viewing and interaction
Make it easy for your end users to view and work with their reports by customizing them to match their needs.
- Application integration
Find out how you can use Crystal Reports to add report viewing, creation, and modification capabilities your applications.
- Security, support, and maintenance
Learn how Crystal Reports can work within your existing security infrastructure and with other Business Objects tools.
(-BusinessObjects.com)
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1.1 Launching Crystal Reports
1.2 The Application Window
1.3 Start Page
1.4 Workbench
1.5 Setting Options
1.6 Exploring Sample Reports
1.7 Report Explorer
1.8 Design Mode
1.9 Preview Mode
1.10 Field Explorer
2.1 The Standard Report Creation Wizard
2.2 Designing a Report from Scratch
2.3 Inserting Fields
2.4 Browsing Field Data
2.5 Moving & Sizing Report Objects
2.6 Placing Text Objects on the Report
3.1 Saving a Report
3.2 Closing a Report
3.3 Modifying a Report Description
3.4 Opening an Existing Report
3.5 Switching Between Open Reports
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4.1 On-line Help & Searching for a Help Topic
4.2 Context-Sensitive Help
4.3 Printing a Help Topic
4.4 Business Objects Web Resources
5.1 The Select Expert
5.2 Using Saved versus Refreshed Data
5.3 Expert Options
5.4 Criteria Based on More than One Field
5.5 Removing a Report Selection
6.1 Sorting Records
6.2 Grouping Records
6.3 Working with Group Trees
6.4 Deleting & Changing Groups
6.5 Inserting Summary Calculation
6.6 Defining Other Summary Calculations
Level Review
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1.1 Using the Create Report Expert
1.2 Modifying a Report Created with the Expert
1.3 Building a Multi-table Report without the Expert
2.1 Changing the Font of a Text or Field Object
2.2 Adding Borders & Drop Shadows
2.3 Formatting Numeric Data
2.4 Changing Object Alignment
3.1 Absolute Formatting
3.2 Conditional Formatting
3.3 The Highlighting Expert
3.4 Modifying & Deleting a Conditional Format
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4.1 The Formula Editor & Inserting Formulas
4.2 Changing Numbers to Words
4.3 String Manipulation and Formatting
4.4 Date Calculations
4.5 Creating Summary Calculations & Totaling By Group
4.6 If-Then-Else Formulas
5.1 Creating Formulas & Entering Code
5.2 Adding Comments
Level Review
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1.1 Creating Parameters Fields
1.2 Working with Multiple Parameter Fields
1.3 Adding a Parameter Field to a Printed Report
1.4 Deleting Parameters
2.1 Changing the Size of a Section
2.2 Sizing a Section Automatically
2.3 Inserting & Deleting Lines
2.4 Using the Section Expert
3.1 Grouping & Sort Direction & Custom Groups
3.2 Sorting within a Group
3.3 Grouping on Intervals
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4.1 Special Fields
4.2 Special Text Object Features
4.3 Working with Lines & Boxes
4.4 Adding Pictures to Your Report
5.1 Using the Cross-Tab Report Wizard
5.2 Using the Cross-Tab Report Expert
5.3 Modifying the Data in a Cross-Tab Report
5.4 Formatting a Cross-Tab Report
Level Review
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1.1 Building a Summary Report
1.2 Allowing or Disallowing Drill-downs
1.3 Running Totals Reports
1.4 Creating Running Totals Overall
1.5 Creating Running Totals for a Group
1.6 Creating Conditional Running Totals
1.7 Creating Running Totals with a One-to-Many Relationship
1.8 Creating Running Totals with the Formula Editor
2.0 Top N
2.1 Creating a Report with Nth Largest Values
2.2 Creating a Report with Nth Smallest Values
2.1 Creating a Report with Nth Largest Values
2.2 Creating a Report with Nth Smallest Values
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3.1 Creating an Unlinked-Sub Report
3.2 Creating a Linked Sub-Report
3.3 On-demand Sub-Reports
4.1 Setting up Group Selection
4.2 Creating a Record or Group Selection Formula
5.1 Creating Mailing Labels
5.2 Modifying the Attributes of Mailing Labels
6.0 Form Letters
6.1 Creating a Form Letter
6.2 Modifying Attributes of a Form Letter
6.3 Customizing a Form Letter for Different Recipients
6.1 Creating a Form Letter
6.2 Modifying Attributes of a Form Letter
6.3 Customizing a Form Letter for Different Recipients
Level Review
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1.1 Databases Overview
1.2 The Database Expert
1.3 Set Datasource Location
1.4 Aliases
1.5 Indexes
1.6 Relationships
1.7 Server-side Processing
1.8 Working with Different Types of Data
1.9 Advanced Database Features
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2.1 Using an Access/Excel (DAO) Datasource
2.2 Using an ODBC (RDO) Datasource
2.3 Using an OLEDB (ADO) Datasource
3.1 SQL & SQL Databases
3.2 What is SQL?
4.1 The Crystal SQL Expression Editor
4.2 Creating a Report from a SQL Query/Command
Level Review
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1.1 Using a Variable
1.2 Assigning a Value to a Variable
1.3 Using Arrays in Formulas
1.4 Using Ranges in Formulas
1.5 Debugging Formulas
2.1 Using Automated Charting
2.2 Creating a Group Chart
2.3 Creating a Detail Formula Chart
2.4 Creating a Cross-tab Chart
2.5 Creating a Gauge Chart
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2.6 Creating a Gantt Chart
2.7 Creating a Funnel Chart
2.8 Modifying Chart Options
2.9 Drilling Down on a Graph
2.10 Re-entering the Chart Expert
2.11 Using a Graph Template
3.1 Using the Map Expert
3.2 Mapping on Grouped Fields
3.3 Modifying Map Attributes
3.4 Mapping on Detail Fields
3.5 Mapping on Cross-tab Summaries
Level Review
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1.1 OLE Introduced
1.2 Adding OLE Objects to a Report
1.3 Working with Static OLE Objects
1.4 Embedded vs. Linked Objects
2.1 Web/IIS logs
2.2 The File System
2.3 NT Event Log
2.4 Outlook
2.5 XML
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3.1 Exporting a Report
3.2 PDF Exporting
3.3 RTF Exporting
3.4 XML Exporting
3.5 Saving Export Settings
3.6 Mailing a Report
4.1 Saving a Report as HTML
4.2 Working with Web Folders
4.3 Building Active Web Sites
5.1 The Crystal Report Designer Component (RDC)
5.2 Embeddable ActiveX Viewer
5.3 Embeddable Java Plugin Viewer
Level Review
Course Review
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Note: Course outlines are subject to change.
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