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Crystal Reports Tools: Improve Performance While Saving Time and Money |
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Crystal Basics: Crystal DictionariesThis is based on the book, Crystal Reports: A Beginner’s Guide. For more detail and explanation, plus practice exercises, order the book here. Have you every looked at a database someone else designed? Or maybe one you designed but haven’t seen for a while? What do those tables mean, and how are they related? What is linked to what, and what field names are present? What do the codes, acronyms, and mnemonics stand for? What VBA scripts are installed? Yikes! People who’ve coded in BASIC or some other language that allows comments understand the value of having some kind of explanatory text. In Crystal Reports, this explanatory text exists as a Crystal Dictionary. As with other functions, this one has an Expert to guide you. When you’re done creating a dictionary, users can report directly from that and not have to learn about the underlying tables and relationships—often a time-consuming and painful task. Here are three tips:
Crystal Dictionaries improve the functionality of Crystal Reports by making them more user-friendly to folks who aren’t familiar with the underlying data. For even more functionality, you can use third-party programs, such as the ones available here.
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