BOC330 - 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 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

Student Profile: This course is designed primarily for report designers responsible for creating and distributing reports.

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

Duration: 1 day

Curriculum: Course topics include:

Describing Report Processing

Describe Multipass reporting
Use evaluation time functions
Use a dynamic array

Creating Complex Formulas

Create complex formulas
Use loop control structures
Use arrays, functions & loops
Use nested functions

Using Custom Functions

Create custom functions
Use custom functions
Modify custom functions

Using Subreports

Define subreports
Create an unlinked subreport
Create a linked subreport
Create an on-demand subreport
Use shared variables in a subreport
Use shared variables Use subreports to link "unlinkable" data
Troubleshoot common subreport issues