SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.1 Part 1: Report Design Fundamentals (BOCE10)

Participants will gain the fundamentals of report design, and will acquire the basis for more advanced courses in the SAP BI curriculum.

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Course Days: 2


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About this Course

SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise is a powerful, dynamic, actionable reporting solution that helps you design, explore, visualize, and deliver reports via the web or embedded in enterprise applications. This two-day instructor led course is designed to give you comprehensive skills and in-depth knowledge to plan and create reports that will help you analyze and interpret data. As a business benefit, participants will find that this course is an in-depth approach to the entire report creation cycle from planning a report prototype to distribution a report.

Participants will gain the fundamentals of report design, and will acquire a foundation of skills needed to succeed in more advanced courses in the SAP BI curriculum.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for the following audiences:

  • Report Developers
  • Line of Business Analysts
  • Project Stakeholders
  • System Administrators

Course Outline

1. Report Planning

  • Database Concepts
  • Planning a Report Prototype

2. SAP Business Objects BI Platform & Data Connections

  • Logging on to SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform
  • Defining a Data Source

3. Fundamentals Report Creation

  • Connecting to a Data Source
  • Create a query to retrieve data from the data source
  • Using the Report Design Environment
  • Setting up Report Sections
  • Working with field object controls
  • Save a report

4. Report Layout and Formatting

  • Setting Page Properties
  • Applying Report Formatting Options

5. Selecting Data

  • Editing a Query
  • Inserting Additional Filter Conditions
  • Modifying Query Filters
  • Applying Time-Based Filters

6. Sorting, Grouping, and Totaling

  • Sorting Data
  • Grouping Data
  • Creating Nested and Multiple Groups
  • Creating a Custom Group
  • Grouping on Time-Based Data
  • Totaling Grouped Data
  • Totaling Column Data

7. Additional Report Objects

  • Inserting Predefined Objects
  • Adding Graphical Objects

8. Using Formulas

  • Defining Formulas
  • Using the Formula Workshop
  • Creating and Modifying Formulas
  • Applying Boolean Formulas
  • Applying If-Then-Else Formulas
  • Applying Date Calculations
  • Applying Numeric Calculations
  • Applying String Manipulation

9. Conditional Formatting

  • Formatting Objects Conditionally
  • Formatting Fields Conditionally with Formulas
  • Formatting Sections
  • Formatting Sections Conditionally
  • Drilling Down on Sections

10. Charting

  • Report Charting Concepts
  • Charting Data
  • Formatting Charts
  • Customizing Charts

11. Distributing Reports

  • Exporting a Report
  • Saving a Report to the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform
  • Managing Reports
  • Sharing Reports


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