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