Crystal reports xi user’s guide
Crystal Reports XI
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Crystal Reports XI 21 About Crystal Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Online help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Business Objects information resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Chapter 2 What’s New in Crystal Reports XI 25
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Powerful report authoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Improved usability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Expanded application-development capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 General description . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Report Application Server (RAS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Report Designer Component (RDC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Crystal Reports .NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Integration with BusinessObjects Enterprise XI . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Chapter 3 Installing Crystal Reports XI 33
Installing Crystal Reports XI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Installation requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Installing Crystal Reports on a local machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Creatingan installation point and installing from a network server . . . . . . 36 Creating an installation point for Crystal Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Installing Crystal Reports from a network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Customizing your installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Running a silent installation . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Upgrading Crystal Reports components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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Learning how to use Crystal Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Sample data - Xtreme.mdb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Report Creation Wizards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Cross-Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Mailing Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 OLAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Quick start for new users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Creating the report...
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