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September 2002
Welcome to our newsletter!
This is the first of what will become a
regular series of newsletters from The Ablaze Group. We want to pass along
the Crystal tips and tricks we've picked up over the years. Let us know
how we're doing - we look forward to your
feedback.
Crystal Reports 9.0 Is Shipping
August 2002 - Crystal Reports
Version 9.0 was released on August 19th. Version 9.0 has over 50 new
features including:
- The Repository
- share report
elements (images, text objects, SQL commands, Custom Functions) among
all report designers in your organization
- New Custom
Functions - create
business-specific functions to be used in all of your formulas
- New web-based report
creation capabilities
expand your web-based reporting
- Create a report
"from scratch" right in a web
browser.
Learn more.
...you could limit a
cross tab to the Top N or Bottom N rows
Just select the cross tab you want to limit. Then, choose
Report | Top N Sort/Group Expert from the pull-down menus, or click the
TopN button in the Supplementary Toolbar (these menu and toolbar options
have changed in version 9). Then choose Top or Bottom N (or additional
percentage options in version 9), and type in the value of N. Your cross
tab will only show the top or bottom number of rows you specified, based
on their row totals! If you want to see the top or bottom N columns, pivot
the cross tab (right click on the cross tab object and choose Pivot Cross
Tab from the pop-up menu), and then re-run the TopN sort/Group Expert to
specify the top or bottom N for the new rows.
(From George Peck, Ablaze Group President and
consultant.)
...about the quick and easy way to
size a section
There's an
easy way to size a section after you've positioned the fields and
graphics. Make sure you're in the Design Window. Click the Design Tab.
Under the Design Tab right-click the section you want to size. Click 'Fit
Section' and there you go! Crystal Reports will fit the section to your
fields and graphics. This trick is taught in the Intro course, but is
often forgotten!
(From Julia Hennelly, Ablaze Group
consultant.)
...how to precisely
size an object
To resize an object, hold down the shift-key and use
the cursor keys. This allows more precise movement and sizing (especially
if "Snap To Grid" is turned off), than when using the mouse.
(From
Lauren O'Malley, Ablaze Group consultant.)
Crystal
Reports 9.0 New Features Course
We know Crystal Reports 9.0
and we can show you how
to use it. We're offering a New Features Course. You have two ways to take
it:
- Onsite - we come to you, use
your data and your environment
- Web-based - register for one
module or for all of them! Learn where you want, when you want - it's
that easy.
Get "Crystal Reports:
The Complete Reference" - 50% off!
Book Crystal Reports onsite training before November 1, 2002 and attendees may
purchase books at 50% off! Call us at (800) 773 3472 for details.
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