Crystal Reports 10 The Complete Reference

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Produce winning presentations and reports with expert advice from this definitive guide. Discover vital tips on how to best utilize Crystal Reports' features to analyze data, and build professional, complex, and effective reports. Find the entire spectrum of user knowledge- from advice for new users on how to develop, design, and build a simple report, to in-depth information on complex features such as Crystal Server Pages and integrating Crystal Reports into Visual Basic.NET programs.

- Design and develop page-published quality reports
- Customize your report data using formulas-from simple math computations to full Basic-like formulas
- Store report objects in the updated repository for organization-wide sharing
- Simplify complex database structures with new version 10 Business Views
- Fulfill sophisticated reporting requirements with subreports
- Schedule and view reports on the Web with Crystal Enterprise 10
- Create interactive reports using parameters fields, drill-down, hyperlinks, and managed navigation
- Export reports to common file formats like Microsoft Word or Excel, Acrobat PDF, HTML, XML, and others
- Develop custom Web and Windows applications to integrate reports using Visual Basic, Visual Studio .NET, or Java
- Create reports based on unique data sources, such as OLAP databases, Microsoft Outlook folders, Web server logs, and XML data