Crystal Reports 2008 for Dummies®

Crystal Reports XI For Dummies is being updated to reflect the new features of the Crystal Reports reporting tool, which greatly enhance the program's ease of use. New features This book shows newcomers to Crystal Reports how to use Crystal Reports to generate reports (which look good and make sense) from the data in databases. The book includes a jump-start chapter on creating a simple report and then moves on to basic and advanced reporting features: retrieving data from databases; sorting, grouping, and totaling result sets; formatting reports; using report templates; sorting groups; making correlations with cross-tab reports; working with formulas; combining reports with OLE; creating and updating OLAP reports; adding geographic detail with maps; and publishing reports. New features to be covered include:

*Dynamic prompts
*Cascading prompts
*Drag & drop charts
*Image pointers
*HTML report preview