Session Info
Wendy Osbaldestin
Wendy joined ICL from school where her two main projects were writing software to produce management reports for evaluating new products and a package to collect information from the sales force and produce forecast sales reports - this is where she came to believe that an essential part of any system must be the production of clear, concise reports.
Her first encounter with Omnis was when asked to evaluate cross-platform languages that would truly work on both Macintosh and PC's. Omnis came out as the only package at the time that really did 'what it said on the box'. Starting with Omnis 5 she has moved up through the versions and her main product is in Omnis 7, as well as some work in Studio.
With a belief that reporting is an essential for any database system and with a very varied client base the need for very different types of reports became apparent. Rather than writing reports within Omnis she looked for a dedicated reporting tool that could access the data no matter what platform / database it was stored in and would allow the customers to define and write their own reports if required.
Session Info:
Crystal Server and Crystal Reports
NEW FOR 2009: Crystal server
This session will demonstrate the set up of the Crystal server so that reports can be run, viewed and scheduled via a web browser.
Crystal reports
These sessions will be using Crystal Reports 2008
It is suggested that delegates come with complex reports that they would like to write.
An evaluation copy of Crystal 2008 can be downloaded from the business objects website with a 30-day evaluation key
At Euromnis I will have some CD's with the evaluation software and an evaluation key so that delegates can pre-install the software before the sessions
Introduction to Crystal
-Reasons for using an external report writer
-Setting up data sources
-Simple reporting
-Report parameters
-Creating Graphs
-Cross Tab reports
-Sub reports
-Exporting data
-Linking to multiple data sources and including the information in the report Formula
-Integration of Crystal 11 with Studio.
Advanced Crystal reporting
-Calculations on report totals
-Running totals
-Averages
-Top N
-Complex formula
-Passing values in and out of sub-reports
-Delegates own reports
-Passing parameters to Crystal from Studio
Distribution of Crystal
-Setting up an installer to distribute the software
Delegates own reports
-Producing reports on delegates own databases
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