SAP® Crystal Reports® 2016: Part 1
Course Description Overview
Organizations use reporting tools to access data sources and generate customized reports. Crystal Reports® 2016 enhances report building and report processing techniques with a variety of features that add value to a presentation. In this course, you will create a basic report by connecting to a database and modifying the report's presentation.
Information is critical to making sound business decisions. Data presented without any formatting or structure holds little or no meaning for interpretation. Crystal Reports 2016 helps you build advanced reports with ease, presenting complex information in an understandable way.
In this course, you will connect to a database to extract data and present it as a report.
You will:
- Identify the elements of the Crystal Reports interface.
- Create and modify a basic report.
- Use formulas to calculate and filter data.
- Build a parameterized report.
- Group report data.
- Enhance a report.
- Create a report using data from an Excel workbook.
- Distribute data.
- Microsoft® Windows® 7, 8.1, or 10 (This course was keyed using Windows 10, so if you are using Windows 7 or 8.1, there may be some minor discrepancies. Consider keying the course before presenting it.)
- Default installation of SAP® Crystal Reports® 2016
- Default installation of Microsoft® Office 2016
- Printer driver (Printers are not required; however, each PC must have an installed printer driver to use Print Preview.)
For this course, you will need one computer for each learner and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware configuration:
- AMD or Intel-based processors, Dual Core CPU or faster processor
- At least 2 GB RAM
- 20 GB available hard disk space
- Keyboard and mouse (or other pointing device)
- Screen resolution of 1,024 × 768 or higher as recommended for your computer
- Network cards and cabling for local network access
- Internet access (contact your local network administrator)
- Printer (optional) or an installed printer driver
- Projection system to display the instructor's computer screen
Lesson 1: Exploring the Crystal Reports Interface
Topic A: Explore Crystal Reports
Topic B: Use Crystal Reports Help
Topic C: Customize Report Settings
Lesson 2: Working with Reports
Topic A: Create a Report
Topic B: Modify a Report
Topic C: Display Specific Report Data
Topic D: Work with Report Sections
Lesson 3: Using Formulas in Reports
Topic A: Create a Formula
Topic B: Edit a Formula
Topic C: Filter Data by Using a Formula
Topic D: Work with Advanced Formulas and Functions
Topic E: Handle Null Values
Lesson 4: Building Parameterized Reports
Topic A: Create a Parameter Field
Topic B: Use a Range Parameter in a Report
Topic C: Create a Prompt
Lesson 5: Grouping Report Data
Topic A: Group Report Data
Topic B: Modify a Group Report
Topic C: Group by Using Parameters
Topic D: Create a Parameterized Top N Report
Lesson 6: Enhancing a Report
Topic A: Format a Report
Topic B: Insert Objects in a Report
Topic C: Suppress Report Sections
Topic D: Use Report Templates
Lesson 7: Creating a Report from Excel Data
Topic A: Create a Report Based on Excel Data
Topic B: Modify a Report Generated from Excel Data
Topic C: Update Data in a Report Based on Excel Data
Lesson 8: Distributing Data
Topic A: Export Data
Topic B: Create Mailing Labels