Online Class: Crystal Reports

Name: Crystal Reports
Price: 95.00 USD

Master Crystal Reports in this robust course, which walks learners from foundational concepts to advanced reporting techniques, fostering a comprehensive understanding of data visualization. Students explore diverse data connections, report design, and distribution methods, empowering them to craft narratives that resonate with any audience.

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Course Description

Mastering Crystal Reports: Transforming Data into Insightful Visual Narratives

In today's data-driven era, the ability to transform a colossal amount of raw information into meaningful insights is an indispensable skill. Crystal Reports, designed by SAP, emerges as a powerful beacon in this realm, allowing you to effortlessly craft comprehensive reports that breathe life into your data. Operating smoothly on the Windows platform, this ingenious tool unlocks the potential of various data sources, weaving them into coherent narratives that resonate with the audience's need for clarity and insight.

Why Choose This Course?

Universality: Whether you're an adept professional or a beginner just setting foot into the world of data representation, this course is tailor-made for you. We embark on a journey from the rudiments to the nuances, ensuring a holistic grasp of Crystal Reports.
Versatility: With Crystal Reports, the spectrum of report types you can generate is expansive. Be it succinct list reports, analytical financial summaries, personalized customer letters, or even intricate mailing label reports, the possibilities are boundless.
Comprehensive Curriculum: Our structured course layout systematically guides you through the labyrinth of functions and features, ensuring that every facet of Crystal Reports becomes second nature to you.

What Awaits You:

Diverse Data Connections: Learn the art of seamlessly integrating with varied data sources, from the ubiquitous Excel spreadsheets to intricate Oracle or MySQL databases.
Design Dynamics: Grasp the techniques of adding tables, views, and other data-related objects to crystallize your reports.
Report Refinement: Dive into the aesthetics and structuring of reports, mastering the skills of alignment, formatting, and customizations that amplify data comprehension.
Enhancing with Elements: Augment your reports with special data fields, non-data objects, and compelling charts, adding depth and dimension to your presentations.
Data Deep Dive: From sorting and filtering to organizing content into structured groups, the course will unravel strategies to manage data in a more meaningful manner.
In-depth Insights: Delve into advanced functionalities such as creating parameter fields, harnessing formula fields, and intricately linking multiple tables to unveil deeper insights from your data.
Distribution Dynamics: Beyond creation, learn the intricacies of exporting and sharing your reports, ensuring your insights reach the desired audience in the format they prefer.

Empower Your Reporting Journey:

In a world where data reigns supreme, the ability to interpret and present it cogently is a prized asset. Crystal Reports stands as a testament to this paradigm, and our comprehensive course is your gateway to mastering this tool.

Join us in this transformative journey, and equip yourself with the prowess to not just understand data but to make it tell a story, to make it matter. It's not just about creating reports; it's about crafting narratives that inform, inspire, and influence. Let's begin this journey of discovery together.

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6 Months to Complete
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PC & Mac Compatible
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Accredited CEUs

Universal Class is an IACET Accredited Provider

Course Lessons

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Lesson 1. Getting Started with Crystal Reports: A User-Friendly Guide
Crystal Reports is a robust tool for report creation, leveraging data from different sources while maintaining its integrity. The course teaches users to proficiently handle the software, supported by exercises and a downloadable trial, preparing them for real-world application through thorough knowledge of its interface and report design principles.
Lesson 2. From Data to Reports: The Essentials of Crystal Reports
The lesson starts with Crystal Reports' prerequisite of external data inputs, and demonstrates report creation using a blank report initiation. It gives a step-by-step guide on connecting Access, Excel, and MySQL databases, illustrating the importance of specific extensions and connection mechanisms through the Database Expert.
Lesson 3. Crystal Reports Basics
Setting up Crystal Reports entails configuring printer options and page dimensions, which form the foundation for how information will be displayed and printed. Control over report sections like headers and details, which can be resized or hidden, is crucial for managing content across multiple pages in the report.
Lesson 4. Efficiently Structuring Report Data with Formatting
Understanding the layout of a report, each row of data is a Details section, and resizing and moving data objects helps enhance readability and attractiveness. By using Preview or Design view, you can manipulate data objects and ensure alignment, avoiding overlaps for a clean presentation.
Lesson 5. Exploring Special Data Fields in Crystal Reports
In Crystal Reports, special fields like Page Number and Total Page Count are indispensable for clarity in reporting, enabling users to communicate document scope effectively. With easy drag-and-drop functions, incorporating crucial data such as file paths and author details becomes seamless.
Lesson 6. Mastering Non-Data Object Integration
Lesson Summary 2: Crystal Reports provides customization tools that allow integration of non-data elements such as text boxes, lines, and images that enhance the readability and aesthetic of reports, beyond just data presentation. This lesson covers how to effectively place and format these elements, as well as utilizing special fields from the Field Explorer to add dynamic content.
Lesson 7. Mastering the Art of Data Sorting in Crystal Reports
Using the Record Sort Expert, you can customize the arrangement of fields in a report to enhance data clarity and accessibility. This feature also allows sorting by non-displayed fields and provides a means to revert to initial sorting if necessary.
Lesson 8. Filter Mastery
Comparison operators allow you to refine your search by using conditions like 'is equal to,' 'is less than,' or 'starts with,' thereby giving you control over the text, numeric, or date fields being filtered. Selecting appropriate operators helps you include or exclude precise information, like cities or date ranges.
Lesson 9. Unlocking the Power of Data Grouping
Organizing data can be achieved through grouping by field values, enhancing clarity and navigation within reports. This lesson demonstrates creating and formatting groups, adjusting field headers, and leveraging the Groups panel to efficiently navigate reports.
Lesson 10. Enhancing Reports with Summary Fields
This lesson explores using formulas in Crystal Reports to effectively summarize data, such as calculating the total number of customers and displaying this data within the report's footer. It covers moving summary fields, using varied functions like average and sum, and creating reports showing exclusively summary field data.
Lesson 11. Simplifying Report Filtering with Parameters
This lesson illustrates the utility of parameter fields in Crystal Reports, which act as adaptive filters allowing users to define the information they want displayed in their reports. Learn to create text, number, and dynamic dropdown parameter fields for refined, user-specific data retrieval.
Lesson 12. Time to Calculate: Formulas for Dates and Age
Creating formulas in Crystal Reports allows for dynamic data calculations within reports, progressing from introductory to advanced techniques, starting with field creation and manipulation. By understanding the Formula Workshop and applying operations with report fields, users can manipulate data for more precise reporting.
Lesson 13. Harnessing the Power of Graphs: Advanced Techniques in Crystal Reports
The Chart Expert in Crystal Reports offers multiple tabs for setting up your desired chart, allowing customization from data selection to presentation aspects like color and text. Whether using summary fields or advanced values, charts can be tailored to highlight key data insights visually.
Lesson 14. Harnessing Report Wizards for Efficient Data Presentation
Starting a report from scratch or using the Standard Report Wizard involves selecting data sources, fields, and formatting options, including charts and filters, to tailor the report structure efficiently. Applying templates can streamline design but should be executed early in report creation to prevent unwanted alterations, with a recommended practice of saving alternate copies.
Lesson 15. Mastering Formatting Choices for Your Report's Anatomy
Dive into advanced formatting options that enhance your report's appearance by playing with headers, footers, and details through tabs like Common, Paging, and Color.
Lesson 16. One-to-Many Connections: Parent and Child Tables Explained
Using relational databases, you can efficiently manage data by creating linked tables, which reduces redundancy and the need for constant restructuring. Crystal Reports allows you to manually join and select suitable join types to produce detailed reports on linked data sets.
Lesson 17. From Crystal to PDF: Ensuring Consistency in Report Exports
Lesson Summary 1: Exporting reports from Crystal Reports into formats like PDF ensures that the recipient can view the document without needing Crystal Reports. Export options include saving the file to a hard drive or sending it via MAPI-compliant email, with personalization features like bookmarks and hyperlinks removal.
Lesson 18. Streamlining Report Management with Crystal Reports
Organize your Crystal Reports by creating dedicated folders and using the workbench for efficient management of frequent reports. You can add, move, or remove reports within the workbench without affecting their storage location on your computer.

Learning Outcomes

By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:

Define and demonstrate the process of installing Crystal Reports by successfully executing steps from downloading to installation completion, ensuring a functional software setup.
Identify and construct basic reports in Crystal Reports by effectively using various data sources, fields, and design elements to meet specified report requirements.
Define the steps to create a blank report in Crystal Reports using menu options.
Demonstrate how to connect to an Access database with both .mdb and .accdb extensions in Crystal Reports.
Define the steps to set up a report page in Crystal Reports, including printer options, paper size, orientation, and margins.
Identify and explain the function of each default section within a Crystal Report, including Report Header, Page Header, Details, Report Footer, and Page Footer.
Define and apply appropriate resizing techniques to ensure all data fields in a report are fully visible without overlapping adjacent fields.
Demonstrate how to align text and data objects in a report to enhance readability and appearance using the alignment tools and ruler guides provided.
Apply special data fields in a report to accurately reflect metadata such as file path, report title, and creation specifics in the Page Footer and Header.
Define and demonstrate the use of special data fields in Crystal Reports to display report information like update date, time, and page numbers.
Create and modify non-data objects, including lines and boxes, to enhance report design and readability in Crystal Reports.
Demonstrate how to add and format text objects in Crystal Reports by inserting and editing textboxes in various sections of a report.
Recognize the process of sorting data in ascending and descending order within Crystal Reports using Report Sort Expert.
Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.

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Course Title: Crystal Reports

Course Number: 8900341

Lessons Rating: 4.7 / 5 Stars (319 votes)

Languages: English - United States, Canada and other English speaking countries

Availability: This course is fully available online in all 50 states, including California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Georgia. It’s also offered in major English-speaking countries, such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Ireland.

Last Updated: January 2024

CEU Value: 1.0 IACET CEUs (Continuing Education Units)

CE Accreditation: Universal Class, Inc. has been accredited as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).

Grading Policy: Earn a final grade of 70% or higher to receive an online/downloadable CEU Certification documenting CEUs earned.

Course Type: Self-Paced, Online Classes

Assessment Method: Lesson assignments and review exams

Proctor: UniversalClass Instructional Team

Syllabus: View Syllabus

Course Fee: $120.00 U.S. dollars