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This book contains six major parts. Each part contains several chapters.
Part I: Reporting Basics
Part I introduces you to Crystal Reports and the art of report creation. You
find out what a report should accomplish and what it should look like. Then
you fire up Crystal Reports and use it to create a simple report based on data
held in a database.
Part II: Moving Up to Professional-
Quality Reports
You can do many things beyond the basics to make reports more focused,
more readable, and easier on the eye. This part gives you the information
you need to do all those things.
Part III: Advanced Report
Types and Features
Part III gets into serious report creation. With the information in this part,
you can zero in on exactly the data you want and display it in the most understandable
way. You’ll be able to nest one report within another, pull report
elements from multiple non-database sources, present multidimensional data
in OLAP cubes, illustrate points with charts and maps, and create stunning
visuals with Xcelsius and Flash. With these tools, you can produce reports fit
for the eyes of the organization’s CEO.
Part IV: Crystal Reports in the Enterprise
BusinesObjects Enterprise is a companion product to Crystal Reports that
controls and secures the distribution of reports. With it, you can make your
reports accessible to people on your local area network (LAN), or on the World
Wide Web. BusinessObjects Enterprise is also the home of the Repository,
which is a great place to store formulas or custom functions so they can be
used again.
Part V: Publishing Your Reports
After you create a report, you’ll want to make it available to the people who
need it. Crystal Reports makes it easy for you to distribute your report for
viewing, whether to colleagues in your organization or to Internet users
around the world. In addition, you can publish your reports using traditional
methods. You can print it; export it to a file, or fax it to people far away. After
you complete report development, distribution is easy.
Although Crystal Reports does a great job when used all by itself, you can also
incorporate it into applications written in a computer language. The Crystal
Reports SQL Expression Fields facility gives you direct control over the data
in a report’s underlying database. Because a version of Crystal Reports is
included as an integral part of the Microsoft .NET application development
environment, you can incorporate the power of Crystal Reports into applications
you write in Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual C#, or any language compatible
with the .NET framework. This gives the applications you write the
sophistication of the world’s leading report writer.
Part VI: The Part of Tens
It’s always good to remember short lists of best practices. That’s what The
Part of Tens is all about. Listed here are pointers that help you produce
outstanding reports with minimum effort, in the shortest possible time.
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