Resource Library: Tips & Tricks
Filter results:20 Secret Shortcuts and Workarounds for Crystal Reports Designers and Developers
This guide contains a concise summary of answers to the most common Crystal Reports questions, along with links to more detailed explanations.
Allowing Users to Select 'All' Values in a Prompt
This tip will show you how to modify the LOV of an object to build a pre-defined condition that prompts users to choose unique values, or to choose a dummy value: ‘all’.
Creating Automatic Wildcard Prompts
This tip will show you how to set up automatic wildcard searching in BusinessObjects reports.
Creating Conditional Crosstabs and Formatting
In this tip, you will learn how to create conditional crosstabs using Crystal Reports, and how to apply conditional formatting to it to create alerts.
Creating Dynamic Lists of Values
This tip will show you how to generate dynamic list-of-values that are based on other objects. For example, we’ll show how to limit the list of values or “city” according to the “region” specified.
Creating HTML Dashboards With Reporter
Executive Dashboards provide summarzied views by aggregating data from various sources and provide direct on-line access to information in a useful and navigable format. This tip will show you how to create HTML dashboards using Business Objects Reporter.
Creating Hyperlink Objects in Designer
This tip will show how to create dynamic hyperlink objects in Designer. These objects, which are built upon other objects, can be used to link to web pages, picture, other documents, etc… that are related to objects in your report.
Creating Report Indexes in WebIntelligence
This tip will show how to set up indexes in a WebIntelligence report. This makes navigation much easier (particularly in larger reports) as you can click on an index to jump to a particular section of the report.
Creating Single Headings Across Multiple Crosstab Cells
This tip will show you how to create single cell headings across multiple crosstab cells in a BusinessObjects report.
Creating Variable Total Breaks
This tip will show you how to create variable breaks in Full-Client and Webi reports.
Developing a Master Security Universe
This tip will show you how to create a master security universe that can be used to control access to data throughtout your organization.
Keyword Date Prompting
This tip will show you how to set up prompts that will allow you to enter a keyword that indicates a particular date (i.e. BOM for the beginning of the month, BOW for the beginning of the week, etc…) or the date itself in Full-Client and Webi reports.
Linking BusinessObjects Reports to Outside Data Sources
This tip will show you how to link to outside data sources, such as an Excel spreadsheet, in Full-Client reports.
