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Refresher Exercise

• Review of Planning a Report
• Creating the Report
• Placing Fields on the Report
• Creating the Formulas
• Advanced Grouping
• Selecting Certain Records
• Helpful Hints for Formatting the Report
• Adding and Working with Text Objects
• Hiding and Suppressing Sections
• Guidelines
  

Power Formatting with Multiple Sections

• Using Multiple Sections in Reports
• Using the Section Expert to Work with Sections
• Conditionally Formatting Multiple Sections
• Advanced Drill Down Group Level
• Challenge Exercise - Formatting with Multiple Sections
• Challenge Exercise - Conditionally Formatting Multiple Sections

Using the Running Totals Feature

• Understanding Running Totals
• Creating Running Totals for a List of Numbers
• Conditional Running Totals
• Challenge Exercise - Creating Running Totals
• Challenge Exercise - Creating a Conditional Running Total

Prompting with Parameters

• Parameter Field Considerations
• Creating a Parameter Field
• Using a Parameter to Select Records
• Using a Parameter Field
• Creating a Dynamic Value List for Parameter Values
• Importing a Pick ListAdding
• Parameter Values to Text Objects
• Allowing Multiple Values in Parameters
• Using Multiple Parameter Fields in Reports
• Specifying and Limiting a Range for a Parameter

Prompting with Parameters (cont...)

• Using Parameters in Conditional Formatting
• Using an Edit Mask to Limit String Parameters
• Sorting with a Parameter
• Using a parameter to set N in a Top N Report
• Cascading Parameters
• Challenge Exercise - Using Parameters
  

Using Advanced Formula Features

• Understanding How Crystal Reports Processes the Data
• What Is a Pass?
• Using Evaluation Time Functions
• Working with Variables
• Declaring a Variable
• Assigning a Value to a Variable
• Using a Variable in a Formula
• Variable Scope
• Separating Statements in Complex Formulas
• Working with Arrays
• Challenge Exercise - Understand and Set Up the YTD Comparison Report
• Challenge Exercise - Declare Variables and Conditionally Assign Values to Them

Tools for Creating Advanced Reports

Using Sub reporting as a Workaround Solution

• Understanding Sub reports
• Unlinked versus Linked Subreports
• Creating an Unlinked Sub report
• Linking a Subreport
• Database Links versus Subreports in One-to-Many Situations
• Creating On-Demand Subreports
• Creating Hyperlinks
• Using Subreports to Link "Unlinkable" Data
• Challenge Exercise - Creating Reports with Linked Subreports
  

Creating Powerful Groups

• Using the Group Expert
• Using a Field Name to Customize the Group Name
• Using a Formula to Customize the Group Name Field
• Creating Custom Groups
• Grouping on a Formula Field
• Using Group Selection to Filter the Records in the Report
• Grouping Hierarchically
• Create Customized Grouping
• Brain Teaser - Using Group Selection
• Challenge Exercise - Creating a Group Using a Formula

Working with Cross-Tab Report

• Understanding How Cross-Tabs Affect Your Data
• Creating a Cross-Tab Report
• Creating a Cross- Tab with Multiple Rows or Columns
• Applying a Formatting Style to the Cross-Tab
• Customizing the Cross-Tab Format
• Changing Background Colors
• Formatting Individual Cells
• Changing the Summary Operation
• Suppressing Rows, Columns or Totals
• Repeating Row Heading for Multi-Page Cross-Tabs
• Using Alias Names for Column and Row Headings
• Charting Cross-Tabs
• Challenge Exercise - Cross-Tab Reports

Report Alerts

• What are Report Alerts
• Creating Report Alerts
• Challenge Exercise - Using Report Alerts with Parameter
  

Report Templates

• What is a Report template
• Standard Report Creation Wizard and Templates
• The Template Expert
• Applying a Template and the consequences
• Template Considerations
• Creating Your Own Templates
• Inserting Template Fields
• Formatting Template Fields
• Giving Template Fields a Value

For After the Class

APPENDIX A - The Xtreme Sample Database

• A relational diagram of tables existing the Xtreme Sample Database 11 provided on the Crystal Reports Installation CD

APPENDIX B – Installation and System Requirements

• A complete listing of operating system and hardware requirements

APPENDIX C - Function and Operator Locations

• A complete listing of all the available Formula Functions and an explanation of the new Custom Functions

APPENDIX D - Glossary

• A complete glossary of terms used throughout the book