BOC210 (RD110R2) Crystal Reports: Report Design I – Fundamentals of Report Design

2 day instructor-led course

Course Description

This course is designed to give learners comprehensive skills and in-depth knowledge
to plan and create reports that will help them analyze and interpret information.

As a business benefit, learners will find that this course is an in-depth approach to the
entire report creation cycle from planning a report prototype to distributing a report.

Course Topics

Planning a Report
• Defining database concepts
• Planning and developing a report
prototype

Creating a Report
• Connecting to a data source
• Adding tables
• The design environment
• Inserting objects on a report
• Previewing and saving a report
• Positioning and sizing objects
• Formatting objects

Selecting Records
• Defining the Select Expert
• Determining the record selection
criteria
• Defining saved and refreshed
data
• Applying record selection
• Applying additional record
selection criteria
• Modifying record selection
• Applying time-based record
selection

Organizing Data on a Report
• Sorting records
• Grouping records
• Summarizing data

Formatting a Report
• Adding graphical elements
• Combining text objects with
database fields
• Applying specialized formatting
• Inserting fields with pre-built
functions

Applying Section Formatting
• Formatting sections
• Creating a summary report

Creating Basic Formulas
• Defining formulas
• Creating formulas
• Applying Boolean formulas
• Applying If-Then-Else formulas
• Applying date calculations
• Applying number calculations
• Applying string manipulation

Applying Conditional Reporting
• Determining trends in data
• Formatting data conditionally

Representing Data Visually
• Creating a chart

Distributing a Report
• Exporting a report
• Saving a report to
BusinessObjects Enterprise