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I Love You. www.free-ebooks-download.org This page intentionally left blank. www.free-ebooks-download.org Contents at a Glance Part I Crystal Reports 9 Introduced 1 Getting the Feel of Crystal Reports 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Enhancing Appearance with Text Objects . . . . . . . . . . . 33 3 Sorting and Grouping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 4 Creating Geographic Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 5 Using Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 6 Creating Custom Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 7 The Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 8 Analyzing with Advanced Selection Criteria . . . . . . . . 209 9 Making Your Reports Visually Appealing . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 10 Using Sections and Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 11 Analyzing with Cross-Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 12 Creating Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 13 Using Subreports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 14 Viewer Interaction with Parameter Fields . . . . . . . . . . . 385 vii For more information about this title, click here. 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Click Here for Terms of Use. www.free-ebooks-download.org 15 Exporting Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419 16 Reporting from SQL Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 17 Accommodating Database Changes and Field Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489 18 Reporting from OLAP Cubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501 19 Reporting from Proprietary Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527 Part II Crystal Reports 9 on the Web 20 Crystal Reports Web Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553 21 Crystal Reports and Microsoft Active Server Pages . . . . . 575 22 Introduction to Crystal Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613 23 Using the Crystal Launchpad and ePortfolio . . . . . . . . . 635 24 Customizing Crystal Enterprise ePortfolio . . . . . . . . . . 693 Part III Developing Custom Window Applications 25 Integrating Crystal Reports 9 with Visual Basic . . . . . . 717 26 Crystal Reports with Visual Studio .NET . . . . . . . . . . . . 799 A Installing and Configuring Crystal Reports Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829 viii Crystal Reports 9: The Complete Reference www.free-ebooks-download.org [...]... Publishing Crystal Reports to Crystal Enterprise Publishing with Crystal Reports 8.5 The Crystal Publishing Wizard Publishing with the Crystal Management Console 23 616 617 620 621 624 693 694 695 696 697 697 698 699 702 703 703 707 w w w fr ee -e bo ok s- Customizing Crystal Enterprise ePortfolio Customization... toolbars, pull-down menus, and the Welcome dialog box w w w fr ee -e bo ok s- do w Standard toolbar Choose new report option Open report from File Open dialog box Figure 1-1 Open recently used report Crystal Reports opening screen Formatting toolbar CRYSTAL REPORTS 9 INTRODUCED Crystal Reports is aimed at three general types of users: 5 6 Crystal Reports 9: The Complete Reference When you first start the program,... 728 728 730 731 735 7 39 7 39 741 742 745 748 748 750 751 753 754 756 7 59 762 764 765 767 770 774 775 775 776 777 780 781 786 788 792 793 795 797 797 Contents 799 800 800 801 805 805 806 806 8 09 810 814 814 817 818 8 19 Installing and Configuring Crystal Reports Components 821 Installing the Crystal Reports Designer Installing the Report Designer... TEe-e bo AMok sFLdown Y load Part I w w w fr Crystal Reports 9 Introduced Copyright 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Click Here for Terms of Use w w w fr ee -e bo ok s- do w nl oa d or g This page intentionally left blank or g d ee -e bo ok s- do w nl oa Chapter 1 w w w fr Getting the Feel of Crystal Reports 9 3 Copyright 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Click Here for Terms of Use Crystal. .. as Crystal Dictionaries, the Crystal SQL Designer, and how to develop User Function Libraries in Visual Basic And, for a quick rundown of the options available when installing Crystal Reports 9 or the Report Application Server, visit the appendix This addition to the book talks about the different choices you have when installing the tools w What’s New in Crystal Reports 9 As mentioned earlier, Crystal. .. some other new version 9 features The RDC is covered in detail in Chapter 25 Visual Studio NET Enhancements Although an enhanced version of Crystal Reports is included out-of -the- box in the initial release of Visual Studio NET, new version 9 functionality will also be added to VS.NET when you install Crystal Reports 9 Advanced Edition You also will find a RAS SDK for use with VS.NET Crystal Reports. .. Bundled Crystal Reports Versus the Stand-Alone Version Visual Basic Developer Interfaces 7 19 7 19 720 720 720 721 xvii Crystal Reports 9: The Complete Reference w w fr ee -e bo ok s- do w nl oa d or g The Report Designer Component RDC Object Model Architecture Different RDC Pieces The ActiveX... professionals, who will use Crystal Reports to integrate sophisticated reporting right inside their own Microsoft Windows programs I Webmasters, who will use Crystal Reports to provide print-quality reports and graphics over their intranets or the Internet Insert Tools toolbar Expert Tools toolbar nl oa d or g Figure 1-1 shows the Crystal Reports 9 screen when the program is first started Note the standard Windows... 6 xi Crystal Reports 9: The Complete Reference 191 192 193 196 197 197 198 203 203 203 204 205 207 nl oa d or g The Repository The Repository Defined Creating a Shared Repository Controlling Repository Permissions Adding To/Updating the Repository ... detail in Chapters 20 and 21 xxvii xxviii Crystal Reports 9: The Complete Reference Crystal Enterprise 8.5 The latest version of Crystal Enterprise (as of this printing) is covered in detail in Chapters 22, 23, and 24 Report Parts and Guided Navigation Crystal Reports 9 features new web-based report viewers that allow individual parts of reports, as opposed to the entire report, to be viewed in web pages . Team-Fly ® www.free-ebooks-download.org Crystal Reports ® 9: The Complete Reference www.free-ebooks-download.org About the Author After more than 10 years as. publisher. 0-0 7-2 2 290 0-4 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-0 7-2 225 1 9- X. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put. . . . . . . . . . xxiii Part I Crystal Reports 9 Introduced 1 Getting the Feel of Crystal Reports 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Introducing Crystal Reports 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .