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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.
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Customer Reviews:
• Who Are You Writing This Book For?
13 November, 2003
After reading positive reviews of this title, I decided to purchase the complete reference and was extremely disappointed. The most common problem with crystal books (or any other software application manual-excel, access, etc.) is that the author try's to appeal to all crystal report's users. There are generally three types of software user's out their, 1. database administrator/computer programmers who want reference manuals with excellent indexes. 2. Basic users who can get by with your classic "for dummies" title. 3. User's who don't understand VBA or SQL but want to be able to create reasonably advanced adhoc reports. This title is to basic for the database administrator who would have to read 4 pages of babble to find the specific piece of information they need. There are no practice assignments for the beginner/intermediate report writer to do just that "practice". And when you do find a title that contains tutorials/assignments they are often to basic and lack real relevance in the business world. With the number of access, excel, crystal, etc. titles on the market you would think that there would be enough room to specifically appeal to the different types of software user's out their.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Not Much Different Than Crystal's Own Manual
14 March, 2003
I purchased this book as a reference. Fortunately, I had a separate training course for learning the Crystal application. And I now teach the product.It's a good reference. I truly haven't had a question yet regarding basic or advanced procedures in the application that I couldn't find. But I would not recommend it for learning the application. It is dense. I'm also disappointed that it is not very different from the CR 8.0 manual published by Crystal Decisions. The layout and procession of the book are virtually the same! It could have included more tutorials, too.One thing that I would love for any CR reference/manual to include is a list and description of all the formulas in the system. To my knowledge, this does not exist anywhere, even in Crystal's own documentation.PURCHASING RECOMMENDATION If you need a solid reference and didn't purchase manuals with Crystal, this will work. If you need to learn the product, get something else.
- Amazon Customer Review
• A Good Reference Book
30 March, 2003
I develop financial reporting applications for various companies using VB and VBA. Recently I have completed a financial reporting system completely within Access 2000 making extensive uses of Access's report objects.Although the Access report object does its job well, it lacks a lot of power features, i.e., limited grouping capabilities, formula in text boxes is limited to a simply expression unless you make a call to UFD, then you would loss your object encapsulation, etc, The Data Report object is VB6 is still some what of a joke, but let not open this can of worms. Thus, I have chosen Crystals reports for my developing needs.I find George Peck's Complete Reference series very helpful. The book has 800 pages to teach me every nuance of Crystal. This book does not teach me anything about VB coding nor does it contain a reference to the object model within the RDC or any of the other object models in Crystal. I didn't buy this book to learn how to code. The author noted in page 659 specifically that the book is not meant to teach you Visual Basic.Overall, this book gets me up to speed quickly and it's a good reference source for my future needs. Personally, I don't find the crystal help files very helpful.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Nice Reference For New To Crystal Reports
15 September, 2009
I recently started a new job that included a significant amount of Crystal Reports development. I found to my dismay that there is very little information on Crystal Reports development on the Internet.
Crystal Reports 8.5 is by far the least intuitive tool (or development platform, whatever you want to call it) that I have ever worked with. The manuals provided with Crystal reports appear to be written buy someone as lost as I, because they didn't offer any insight, or provide any information that I didn't already know.
This book provided a good foundation for me, and I feel like I can tackle a good portion of the problems that I'm now faced with for reporting. The book covers traditional reporting problems, and as it seems with everything I get involved in, the work I'm doing is not traditional, but it does provide good principals and has a lot of information that helps me to be able to move on to the non-traditional stuff much better.
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