P&O GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES SDN BHD

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- Business Object – Crystal Report V10.0 -

DESIGN I – FUNDAMENTALS OF REPORT DESIGN V10 ..........................................................................................1

DESIGN II – BUSINESS REPORTING SOLUTIONS V10 ..............................................................................................3

DESIGN III – REPORT PROCESSING STRATEGIES V10 ...........................................................................................5

 P&O GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES SDN BHD Business Object – Crystal Report

DESIGN I – FUNDAMENTALS OF REPORT DESIGN V10

This course is designed to give Prerequisites For Success

learners comprehensive skills
and in-depth knowledge to plan
and create report that will help
them analyze and interpret
important information.
In this course student will be working intensively with Crystal
Reports. To successfully understand the content and complete
the activities, student must already able to:
• Understand and use Windows conventions
• Understand basic database concepts

Course Number : MCR01

Duration : 2 days
Course Fee : RM1,700.00

Who Will Benefit

This course is designed for report designers, new to Crystal Reports, who are responsible for
creating and distributing reports.

How You Benefit

After completing the course, learners will be able to:

• Plan a report
• Create a report
• Organize data on a report
• Format a report
• Create basic formulas
• Apply section formatting
• Apply conditional reporting
• Present data visually
• Distribute a report

• Module 1: Planning a Report

- Defining database concepts
- Planning the layout and content of a report
- Developing a prototype of a report
• Module 2: Creating 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

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 P&O GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES SDN BHD Business Object – Crystal Report

DESIGN I – FUNDAMENTALS OF REPORT DESIGN V10

• Module 3: Creating a Report

- Connecting to a data source
- Adding tables
- Defining the design environment
- Inserting objects on a report
- Previewing and saving a report
- Positioning and sizing objects
- Formatting objects
• Module 4: Organizing Data on a Report
- Sorting records
- Grouping records
- Summarizing data
• Module 5: Applying Section Formatting
- Formatting sections
- Creating a Summary report
• Module 6: Formatting a Report
- Adding graphical elements
- Combining text objects with database fields
- Formatting individual elements of a text object
- Apply specialized formatting
- Inserting fields with pre-built functions
• Module 7:Representing Data Visually
- Creating a chart
• Module 8:Distributing Reports
- Exporting a report
- Saving a report to Crystal Enterprise
• Module 9: Creating Basic Formulas
- Defining a formula
- Creating a formula
- Applying Boolean formulas
- Applying If-Then-Else formulas
- Applying data calculations
- Applying umber calculations
- Applying string manipulation
• Module 10: Applying Conditional Reporting
- Determining trends in data
- Formatting data conditionally

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DESIGN II – BUSINESS REPORTING SOLUTIONS V10

This course is designed to give Prerequisites For Success

learners comprehensive skills
and in-depth knowledge to plan
and create reports that will help
them analyze and interpret
important information.
In this course student will be working intensively with Crystal
Reports. To successfully understand the content and complete
the activities, student must already able to:
• Understand and use Window conventions
• Understand basic database concepts
• Understand concepts taught in Report Design I

Course Number : MCR02

Duration : 2 days
Course Fee : RM1,700.00

Who Will Benefit

This course is designed for report designers, who have taken Report Design I – Fundamentals of
Report Design, responsible for creating & distributing reports.

How You Benefit

After completing the course, learners will be able to:

• User the Repository
• Create complex formulas
• Create Report Templates
• Build parameterized reports
• Summarize data with Cross-Tabs
• User report sections
• Build specialized reports
• Share reports on the web

• Module 1:Use the Repository

- Manage the Crystal Repository
- Add folders to the Repository
- Add objects to the Repository
- Update Connection to the Repository Object in the Report
- Delete objects to the Repository
- Connect to your own Repository
- Create a Report from an SQL Command
- Create a Report from an Business View
• Module 2: Create Report Templates
- Applying a Crystal defined templates
- Building a Template without a data source
- Removing Templates

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DESIGN II – BUSINESS REPORTING SOLUTIONS V10

• Module 3: Create complex formulas

- User Functions and Operators
- Define control structures available in Crystal Syntax
- User Variables
- User Arrays
• Module 4: Build parameterized reports
- Define and create parameters
- User edit masks and descriptions
- Build a report with multiple parameters
- Create a date range parameter
• Module 5: Summarizing data with Cross-Tabs
- Build a basic Cross-tab
- Format a Cross-tab
• Module 6: User report sections
- User Sections
- Use group related functions to format sections
- User Section Underlay
• Module 7: Share reports on the web
- Define how Crystal Report fits into the Crystal solution
- User Crystal Enterprise Publishing Wizard
- View Parameterized Report in Crystal Enterprise
• Module 8: Build specialized reports
- User the Running Total Expert
- Create a Form Letter
- Add Hyperlinks to a report
- Build a Report with Alerts
- Create a Top N Report

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DESIGN III – REPORT PROCESSING STRATEGIES V10

This course is designed to give Prerequisites For Success

learners comprehensive skills
and in-depth knowledge to plan
and create reports that will help
them analyze and interpret
important information.
In this course student will be working intensively with Crystal
Reports. To successfully understand the content and complete
the activities, student must already able to:
• Understand and user Windows conventions
• Understand basic database concepts
• Understand concepts taught in Associate level course

Course Number : MCR03

Duration : 1 day
Course Fee : RM1,100.00

Who Will Benefit

This course is designed for report designers, who have taken Report Design I – Fundamentals of
Report Design and Report Design II – Business Reporting Solutions and who are responsible for
creating and distributing reports.

How You Benefit

After completing the course, learners will be able to:

• Describe report processing
• User Subreports
• Create complex formulas
• User Custom Functions

• Module 1: Describe Report Processing

- Describe Multipass reporting
- User evaluation time functions
- User a dynamic array
• Module 2 :Create complex formulas
- Create Complex Formulas
- User Loop Control Structures
- User Arrays Functions and Loops
- User Nested Functions
• Module 3 : User Custom Functions
- Create Custom Functions
- User Custom Functions
- Modify Custom Functions

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DESIGN III – REPORT PROCESSING STRATEGIES V10

• Module 4 : User Subreports

- Define subreports
- Create an unlinked subreport
- Create a linked subreport
- Create an on-demand subreport
- Using shared variables in a subreport
- User Shared Variables
- Using Subreports to Link “Unlinkable” Data
- Troubleshoot Some Common Subreport Issues

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