The following is a short description of each section in the online help.
Welcome! This section introduces you to Crystal Reports, the world standard for desktop and web reporting, and provides you with an overview of the contents of this online help.
Building on the proven stability of its version 8.5 release, Crystal Reports now brings you several new features and enhancements, especially in the area of web reporting.
This section introduces the new features and enhancements, which fall into three key categories: Web reporting, Report Designer features, and Developer features.
This section begins with an overview of the sample reports and data commonly used with Crystal Reports. It then presents an overview of the Report Expertsboth new and advanced users can benefit from looking at the Standard Report Expert as it has many steps in common with the other Report Experts. Finally, the section offers two tutorials: one for new users and another for more advanced users.
This section describes the basic concepts of report design and helps you decide what information you want to include in your report.
This section shows you the basics of creating a report in Crystal Reports. First you'll learn about the report design environment, then about how to select database tables, place objects on a report, and how to sort, group, and total your report data.
This section suggests ways to enhance reports so they take advantage of performance enhancements made to Crystal Reports. While the suggestions made here are especially important for optimizing the performance of reports distributed over the thin
This section shows you how to filter the records you want included in a report. For example, using the record selection tools, you can limit the records in your report to include only records for a specific group of customers, a specific range of account numbers, or a particular date range.
Sorting, grouping, and totaling are the steps that turn disorganized data into useful information on a report. This section describes the types of sorting, grouping, and totaling you can do within a report.
Running totals are a flexible and powerful way to create specialized summaries and continually incrementing totals.
This section shows you how to add a basic running total and a running total within a group to your report. You will also learn how to create conditional running totals and running totals using formulas.
This section introduces the various types of sophisticated reports you can create using the multiple section reporting capabilities in Crystal Reports. These capabilities enable you to create reports that treat individual values differently based on sets of criteria you establish. These concepts are then applied to the creation of Form Letters.
Formatting refers to changes in the layout and design of a report, as well as the appearance of text, objects, or entire report sections. This section details methods you can use to draw attention to data, change the presentation of dates, numbers, and other values, hide unwanted sections, and perform a variety of other formatting tasks to give a report a professional appearance.
Crystal Reports enables you to present summarized data in colorful, easy
Crystal Reports enables you to include maps with reports made up of geographic data. This section explains how to use maps in reports to make report data more meaningful and easier to interpret. You can customize and rearrange the appearance of a map and activate the drill
This section explains how Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) can be used to edit graphics or other objects from within your report instead of opening an additional application.
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This section describes how to create OLAP reports with a variety of OLAP and Multi
This section provides you with information about how to distribute finished reports using a variety of methods (printing, faxing, exporting). It also includes information about opening reports in Enterprise folders.
This section provides information about creating and using alerts in your Crystal reports.
This section describes the XML data access and export capabilities of Crystal Reports. It begins with a brief overview of XML technology and then provides procedures for setting up XML data access and using the XML exporting features.
This section describes the Add
This section explains the basics of formulas and introduces you to the Formula Editor in order for you to begin to create formulas.
This section provides you with an overview of various parts of a formula. You learn about Basic syntax and the techniques you can use when creating a formula.
This section provides you with an overview of various parts of a formula. You learn about Crystal syntax and the techniques you can use when creating a formula.
This section provides you with a list of functions and demonstrates how they can be used in a formula.
The section provides you with a list of operators and demonstrates how they can be used in a formula.
This section explains what parameter fields are and how they can be applied to create a single report that can be used to access different types of data depending on the user's needs.
A subreport is a report within a report. With subreports, unrelated reports can be combined into a single report. You can coordinate data that otherwise cannot be linked and present different views of the same data in a single report. This section shows you how to create and use subreports.
This section describes the essentials you'll need to know to understand database design and use. After describing relational databases (including those from ODBC data sources), indexing, and table linking, the section introduces the concepts of server
Crystal Reports works with all kinds of data, from simple text files to advanced client
A query is a selection statement used to obtain specific information from the database. This section describes how to use the Crystal SQL Designer to create, modify and optimize queries.
Dictionaries are structured and simplified views of data that can be created for some or all of the individuals in an organization. When working with Dictionaries, users see only the information they need and that you want them to see. They reduce support costs and time, and reduce data misuse, loss, and damage. This section shows how to set up and use Dictionaries to improve organizational efficiency and security.
This section provides you with in
The online help comes with a comprehensive glossary explaining basic database and reporting concepts as well as terms specific to the program.
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