This AGG Accelerated Report Development, Learning and Development, includes presentation of design concepts, analysis & demonstration of features along with facilitated discussions. The course is dynamic and is sensitive to the skill level and requirements of the Delegate group. Working with Live or as close to Live Backup/Test data or with a generic Microsoft Access Workshop database the day includes:

• Reporting Background, Report Owners KPIs and Issues, BIT Blind Spots
  
• Cost Benefit Analysis – Estimating, Quality, Time management, Metadata … , master data management, alignment of data definitions, Conceptualising {design, … } & Maintenance {learn by reviewing others code, … }
  
• Good design fundamentals {settings, In Line documentation, …}
  
• PR, Personal Responsibilities
  
• RDBMS, Relational Database Concepts
  
• PM, Agile Processing & UAT & FUAT, Final UAT
  
• Selected Crystal Reports Design and Development review using the standard XTREME demo Sample database tables & views
  
• Inline Documentation {File > Summary Info, Comments //, Tool Tips, Sub Reports, … }
  
• Report Processing Stages and exercises
  
• Manual Running Totals
  
• Dynamic Array Processing
  
• Advanced Sub-reports & passing data
  
• Complex Formulas & Functions:
  ||||||||Fiscal Years and Case driven Quarterly Totals
  ||||||||Control Structures – For loops, While Do loops
  ||||||||Do While loops ...
  
• Custom Functions Structures
  
• Advanced Cross-tabs
  
• Hierarchical Groups
  
• Dynamic & Cascading Parameters
  
• Crystal Command SQL driven tables
  
• Trend Lines
  
• Dashboards
  
• Linked OLE objects
  
• Final Q&A
  
• Course Review / Training Evaluation

A range of re-enforcement exercises of Crystal Reports- Fundamantals, Intermediate and Advanced functionality are included in the Maintenance Workshop Manual and the Delegates Directory.