Crystal Reports 10 For Dummies

  • 4h 13m
  • Allen G. Taylor
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2004

What good is all that data you’re keeping if you can’t put it in a form that means something? This handy guide gets you going with Crystal Reports 10 and its exciting enterprise enhancements. Let your data out of the database and turn it into interactive reports that tell you, and others, what’s happening in your business.

Discover how to:

  • Create and print a simple report
  • Design reports to meet specific needs
  • Sort, group, and total result sets
  • Develop and update OLAP reports
  • Integrate Crystal Reports with Crystal Enterprise and Crystal Analysis

About the Author

Allen G. Taylor teaches database development at a leading online education company and electrical engineering at Portland State University. He has authored twenty books, including SQL* For Dummies.

In this Book

  • Crystal Reports 10 for Dummies
  • Introduction
  • Transforming Raw Data into Usable Information
  • Create a Simple Report Right Now!
  • Report Design Guidelines
  • Reporting Overview
  • Pulling Specific Data from a Database
  • Sorting, Grouping, and Totaling Result Sets
  • Mastering Report Sections
  • Formatting Your Reports
  • Displaying Your Favorite Hit Parade with Group Sort
  • Making Correlations with Cross-Tab Reports
  • Adding Formulas to Reports
  • Creating Reports within a Report
  • Combining Report Elements with OLE
  • Creating and Updating OLAP Reports
  • Enhancing Reports with Charts
  • Adding Geographic Detail with Maps
  • Crystal Enterprise Components
  • Crystal Repository
  • Maintaining Security
  • Navigating with Report Parts
  • Crystal Analysis 10
  • Distributing and Viewing Reports
  • Displaying Reports Online
  • SQL Commands
  • Ten Things to Do Before You Create a Report
  • Ten Ways to Give Your Reports More Pizzaz
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