Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports® is an extremely powerful tool that can be used to create custom reports in IFS. If the data is in the system, then Crystal Reports can be used to summarize and display it. This course provides the basic skills necessary to create and deploy Crystal Reports in IFS. Participants will learn to create reports with and without the report expert, format, group, summarize, integrate reports into IFS, and create new information access layers (IALs).

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for business analysts, project managers, information technology personnel, and core team members.

Prerequisites

It is assumed that the participants have a working knowledge of IFS and a basic knowledge of object-oriented technology.

Version

Version 8.5 (2003 and earlier); Version 9.0 (2004)

Length

3 Days

Course Description

This course show participants how to fully use the features within Crystal Reports to generate custom reports using data from IFS applications.

Topics will include:

• Creating reports using table views in IFS
• Positioning objects in a report
• Formatting objects in a report
• Limiting records in reports
• Creating prompts for reports
• Grouping and summarizing data
• Inserting special fields, embedded objects, and formula fields
• Creating conditional formulas and formatting
• Adding charts to reports
• Integrating reports into IFS
• Creating an IAL
• Create a report using an IAL

For additional information, contact:

Kevin Curtis
Phone: (520) 396-2141
E-mail: training@ifsna.com