The Report Designer The Report Designer lets you design reports by adding report objects, formatting the report layout, creating groups, etc. It’s where you spend the majority of your time when using Crystal Reports. If you’ve used previous versions of Crystal Reports then you are very familiar with the designer. Figure 1-2. The report design […]
1.05 Tutorial 1-1. Printing Your First Report
Tutorial 1-1. Printing Your First Report This lesson walks you through the steps of creating a new report. You will see how easy it is to use the Report Creation Wizard to make a simple report. When you are finished, you will have created and printed out a report that shows employee names. Open Crystal […]
1.06 Getting to Know the Report Designer
Getting to Know the Report Designer The Report Designer is the area where you create reporting magic. With it, you design new reports, modify existing reports, write formulas, preview reports and print them out. It gives you all the tools necessary for designing hundreds of reports. Figure 1-4 shows the designer and its various windows. […]
1.07 Managing the Toolbars
Managing the Toolbars The toolbars are located directly below the menu options listed along the top of the designer. The toolbars make it easy to access the different designer features by the simple click on the mouse. Most buttons either perform an action or make a change to the currently selected report object. Some of […]
1.08 Dockable Windows
Dockable Windows When you first install Crystal Reports, there are three dockable windows displayed in the Report Designer: the Workbench, the Report Explorer, and the Field Explorer. Each window is located along the right side of the designer. If you want to personalize your workspace, you can move them to another location within the designer. […]
1.09 The Workbench
The Workbench Do you work with so many reports that it’s hard to keep track of all of them or even remember for whom or which department they were created for? The Workbench, located on the top right portion of the designer, makes it easy to organize and categorize a large number of reports. Within […]
1.10 The Report Explorer
The Report Explorer The Report Explorer shows a snapshot of every report object on the report. This lets you browse through all the report objects in a hierarchical tree structure and look at each section and see every object within that section. By clicking on the + or – next to the section name you […]
1.11 The Field Explorer
The Field Explorer The Field Explorer gives you a list of all the available database fields, formulas, parameters, summary fields and special fields. The Field Explorer serves two purposes. First is that you can see and edit the different fields on the report. For example, the Database Fields category shows you which fields are part […]
1.12 The Design Tab and Preview Tab
The Design Tab If creating reports were an art, the Design tab would be your canvas. It’s where you place the report objects, change colors or fonts, and set the layout of the report. The details of using the Design tab to create reports are the covered throughout this whole book. For now we will […]
1.13 Understanding the Report Wizards
Understanding the Report Wizards The report wizards make it easy to create most types of reports. By selecting your data source and clicking on a few buttons, you can quickly create new reports. Depending upon your needs, creating reports can be a simple or complicated process. For example, it is very easy to print mailing […]
