Mastering Crystal Reports 9 covers basic reporting skills, but its main purpose is to give you the complete coverage other books don't offer. You'll not only thoroughly learn the powerful features of Crystal Reports 9 but also how to develop custom applications to meet the specific needs of your organization. With Crystal Reports 9 this is more important than ever, because it provides unprecedented new ways to extend its analytical and reporting capabilities and make crucial information available throughout the enterprise.

Coverage Includes:

• Building a report using all core report design elements
• Sorting, grouping, and charting data
• Connecting to various data source types
• Working with multiple tables in a report
• Creating custom functions
• Adding custom functions, graphics, and SQL commands to the Crystal Repository
• Understanding the multi-pass processing model
• Creating and using reusable report templates
• Retrieving data using SQL queries
• Understanding object oriented programming concepts as they relate to Crystal Reports
• Deploying reports to the desktop, corporate intranet, or Web
• Deploying a report as a web service and with ASP
• Creating Windows Crystal Rreports applications using Visual Basic or the .NET platform
• Using Report Application Server for web-based reporting and analysis

• Report writing Fundamentals
• Putting Reports Elements to Work
• Advanced Reporting
• Application Development with Cristal Reports
• Enterprise Reporting
• Appendices