Product Description

The most definitive resource on Crystal Reports available! Create presentation-quality reports using the most powerful data analysis tool and this comprehensive guide. Crystal Reports 8.5: The Complete Reference explains in detail how to use the software to analyze and format data, generate reports, and perform advanced interactive reporting from the Web. Also, learn to develop custom applications and incorporate any Crystal Report into your Windows applications.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #453521 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 799 pages

Synopsis
This is the most definitive resource on Crystal Reports that is available! Create presentation-quality reports using the most powerful data analysis tool and this comprehensive guide. "Crystal Reports 8.5: The Complete Reference" explains in detail how to use the software to analyze and format data, generate reports, and perform advanced interactive reporting from the Web. Also, learn to develop custom applications and incorporate any Crystal Report into your Windows applications.

From the Back Cover

The Most Comprehensive Crystal Reports Resource Available

Get the most out of Crystal Reports 8.5 and produce winning reports and documents using this one-stop reference. Ideal for both beginning and advanced users, this in-depth resource covers fundamental and complex topics with clarity and precision. You'll learn how to develop and design simple reports, use maps and charts, report from SQL databases, and integrate Crystal Reports with your custom Visual Basic applications. You'll also be introduced to Crystal Enterprise, which allows for fast and efficient Web delivery. Written by a Crystal Decisions certified consultant and trainer, this expert reference will show you everything you need to know to take full advantage of this leading report writing and analysis tool.

• Design and produce simple, yet professional-looking reports and presentations
• Use enhanced formulas to fully customize your reports
• Export reports to different file formats--including PDF
• Maximize report performance with your SQL database
• Customize Crystal Enterprise to integrate Web report delivery into your intranet or the Internet
• Create custom Visual Basic reporting applications
• Learn all about Windows and Web report integration with Visual Studio .NET

About the Author
George Peck (Evergreen, CO) is a software trainer, consultant, and developer with more than 20 years of experience in the computer industry.

Customer Reviews

Good breadth of subject matter, though index near to usless.
This is more than just a very good reference book for Crystal Reports. It goes beyond the manual included with Crystal Reports and covers using Crystal Enterprise for web reporting and creating applications using Visual Basic. However a reference book needs a decent index, this book does not which makes finding the subject you are looking for very difficult. This is definitely the best book on the market but hopefully there are better books on the way.

Unsatisfactory
This book claims to be the most comprehensive Crystal reports resource available. Its bigger than the 8.5 manual and you would actually expect it read like a reference, sadly its like a novel, too wordy, the information is not immediately presented, not enough detail and quite disjointed.
Not one topic is exhausted in detail; the authors tease you with scenarios of the perfect report and then leave you hanging with bits of information. Not once have I referred to this book and not thrown it away in disgust. With every passing day the CR8.5 user guide looks more appealing. Simply put the book is disappointing, typical explanations are made with statements as - you can do this and that and even this. Then quickly they authors move to - after you have done this and that and even this, but often they omit the HOW! Why is it called a reference?...