- Paperback: 880 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne; 2nd edition (1 Nov 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 007222519X
- ISBN-13: 978-0072225198
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 18.6 x 5.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 650,719 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Create winning presentations and reports using the most powerful data analysis tool and this comprehensive guide. This book explains how to use the software to analyze and format data, generate reports, perform advanced interactive reporting from the Web, and much more, making it the ultimate one-stop Crystal Reports resource.
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Your Definitive Resource on Crystal Reports 9!
Covers upgraded GUI, custom functions, repository, Report Application Server, and more
Create eye-popping, presentation-quality reports and complex, interactive analysis documents both on and off the Web with help from this one-stop reference. Learn to use the latest version of this powerful reporting tool to develop and design reports, draw information from databases, make tables and charts, integrate with Visual Basic and Visual Studio .NET applications, and much more. This helpful resource provides comprehensive coverage of core basics for new Crystal Reports users, and plenty of review--as well as clarity on what's new--for those who have experience with previous versions. Get the information, advice, and tools you'll need to conquer the learning curve and produce winning reports and report-based applications.
- Develop, design, and build business, corporate, and personal reports
- Learn essentials such as mapping, formatting, grouping, design, and exporting
- Share formula logic and report objects within your organization using the new repository and custom functions
- Utilize templates, complex formulas, charts, report wizards, and more
- Integrate Crystal Reports into Visual Studio .NET Windows and Web applications
- Implement state-of-the-art Web reporting with the new Report Application Server
- Customize Crystal Enterprise for efficient and speedy Web delivery
- Integrate Crystal Reports with Visual Basic and Active Server Pages using Crystal Reports' Report Designer Component
- Maximize report performance with your SQL database
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you're looking for a "what does Crystal do?" book, this one is an excellent introduction.
It covers all aspects of v9 to a level of detail sufficient to get you producing meaningful reports quickly.
Each chapter is well laid out and logically progresses through the steps needed to create a professional looking report. There is also a section on the Report Application Server (RAS) which is needed to roll out reports to users (v9 has had the runtime licence removed!).
For a more indepth view of v9 try "Mastering Crystal Reports 9" from Sybex - available through Amazon.
It covers all aspects of v9 to a level of detail sufficient to get you producing meaningful reports quickly.
Each chapter is well laid out and logically progresses through the steps needed to create a professional looking report. There is also a section on the Report Application Server (RAS) which is needed to roll out reports to users (v9 has had the runtime licence removed!).
For a more indepth view of v9 try "Mastering Crystal Reports 9" from Sybex - available through Amazon.
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61 of 63 people found the following review helpful
the incomplete reference
21 Feb 2003
Format:Paperback
to start, I am a crystal developer who is responsible for putting reports on our sales intranet, and I bought this book thinking it could help me with the new version of Crystal. To be fair, the book does a good job of showing you how to create simple reports. Unfortunately, it never moves far beyond that and is not really deserving of the title "complete reference".
Once you get through the basic material on report design, the chapters on distributing reports through the web, ASP, etc. are weak and the sections on other languages are worse-- the code examples are similiar to the projects that come with the product itself. And probably the worst part of it all, is a MAJOR chunk of the book refers to the previous versions of the product (including Crystal Enterprise 8.5, NOT 9) and outdated features with a disclaimer of "this hasn't been released yet, so here is the old stuff". Why would I buy a book with "version 9" on the cover, when it uses filler material from the previous version? It is a sad attempt to bulk up the page count and make you think you were getting something you are not. So in total, if I could rip the book in half, I would keep the first section and throw out the other half. It is still a good reference for report design, but not much else.
28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Developers beware.
6 Aug 2003
Format:Paperback
I read the review from "J. Mecina from NM" entitled, "the incomplete reference, February 20, 2003" before buying this book. I think his review is on the mark. Unfortunately, this was the best book I could find that covers the CRD (Crystal Reports Designer) control for Visual Basic.
I'm a VB developer with several years of experience and have written many Crystal Reports from simple to moderately complex. So when looking for a good book on the subject, I'm looking for advanced topics. And as was said, unfortunately, this book was not everything that I'd hoped it was. But it still seems to be the best one that I could find. And I spent a good deal of time searching. So... Buyer beware. And good luck.
I'm a VB developer with several years of experience and have written many Crystal Reports from simple to moderately complex. So when looking for a good book on the subject, I'm looking for advanced topics. And as was said, unfortunately, this book was not everything that I'd hoped it was. But it still seems to be the best one that I could find. And I spent a good deal of time searching. So... Buyer beware. And good luck.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Has some good reference material, hard to locate.
16 Mar 2005
Format:Paperback
I was fairly new to Crystal when I bought this book and I found it to have some good material for the intermediate user of Crystal, but the index is the most incomplete I have ever seen in a reference book. Every time I try to look up something that I KNOW I have previously read in the darn thing, it inevitably is not listed in the index and I have to go thumbing through the book to try to locate it. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes the help screens are much much better.
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