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Crystal Reports Tools: Improve Performance While Saving Time and Money |
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Crystal Reports Basics: SectionsThis is based on the book, Crystal Reports: A Beginner’s Guide. For more detail and explanation, plus practice exercises, order the book here. A Crystal Report consists of several sections: page header, page footer, group header, group footer, details, and any kind of custom section you want to create and insert. You can have a Header A and a Header B, where B is the alternate based on some condition. For example, you can do invoice reports, where A thanks the customer for the order and B asks the customer to make good on an overdue account. Or, suppose you have regional offices. Based on recipient zip code, you can have Crystal Reports insert the correct header (A, B, C, D, and so on) for the regional office that handles that zip code. Footers could include seasonal wishes or greetings, based on the time of year. If you want to get a bit fancy, you can position sections side by side for a conditional columnar layout. Sections add enormous functionality to Crystal Reports—the items above are merely the tip of the iceberg. For even more functionality, you can use third-party programs, such as the ones available here.
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