Crystal Reports 7 Advanced: Advanced Sections and Parameters

Overview/Description
This course, Crystal Reports 7 Advanced: Advanced Sections and Parameters, presents advanced topics, including creating complex formulas, using parameter fields, using advanced sections, and using subreports.

Target Audience
You should be familiar with basic Crystal Reports concepts including creating and formatting a report, working with formulas, and creating special reports.

Expected Duration
This course, including the practice exercises, will take up to 4 hours to complete.

Objectives:

Creating Complex Formulas

  • Use variables in formulas
  • Create formulas for extracting text from strings
  • Create formulas for extracting text by content
  • Work with arrays
  • Add running totals to a report

    • Using Parameter Fields

  • Create a basic parameter field
  • Use a parameter field to select records
  • Use a parameter field to format a report
  • Specify a mask for a parameter field

    • Using Advanced Sections

  • Split a section into subsections
  • Create conditional subsections
  • Underlay a section
  • Password-protect a section

    • Using Subreports

  • Make an existing report a subreport
  • Format subreports
  • Link subreports
  • Create new subreports
  • Set subreports to display on demand


    • Course Number: SCR0103