RD-31008 - Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design III - Report Design Strategies
Course
RD-31008
Price:
$600.00
Software Assurance Value:
Not Eligible
Duration:
1 Days
SQLSoft Course RD-31008 Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design III - Report Processing Strategies
Table of Contents
Introduction
Audience
At Course Completion
Prerequisites
Certified Professional Exams
Student Materials
Course Outline
Introduction
Crystal Reports 2008 is a powerful, dynamic, actionable reporting solution that helps you design,
explore, visualize, and deliver reports via the web or embedded in enterprise applications. This
one-day instructor-led course is designed to give you comprehensive skills and in-depth knowledge
required to plan and create reports that will help you analyze and interpret important information.
As a business benefit, you will find that your increased understanding of report processing, formulas,
custom functions and subreports will help you make more effective report design decisions and
create more efficient reports.
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Audience
The target audience for this course is report designers, who have taken Crystal Reports 2008:
Report Design I - Fundamentals of Report Design and Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design II -
Business Reporting Solutions and who are responsible for creating and distributing reports.
You should have completed Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design I - Fundamentals of Report
Design.
You should have completed Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design II - Business Reporting
Solutions.
If you have taken a previous version of either Report Design I - Fundamentals of Report
Design, or Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design II - Business Reporting Solutions, then you
should have completed Crystal Reports 2008: Quickstart.
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At Course Completion
At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe report processing.
- Use Subreports.
- Create complex formulas.
- Use Custom Functions.
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Prerequisites
In this course you will be working intensively with Crystal Reports. To successfully
understand the content and complete the activities, you must already able to:
- Windows conventions
- Basic database concepts
- Experience using a web browser
- Crystal Reports
Students must also have:
- Completed RD-11008, Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design I - Fundamentals of Report Design
- Completed RD-21008, Crystal Reports 2008: Report Design II - Business Reporting Solutions
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Certified Professional Exams
This is a recommended course in the Business Objects Certified Professional: Crystal Reports
certification.
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Student Materials
The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook and other necessary materials
for this class.
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Course Outline
Report Processing
Use multi-pass reporting
Use evaluation time functions
Use a dynamic array
Using 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
Creating Complex Formulas
Use Print State functions
Use loop control structures
Use loop control structures with arrays
Using Custom Functions
Describe a custom function
Use custom functions
Using XML and Web Services Data
Use XML and web services data
Use a transform in XML exporting
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