Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Reporting:
Deploying Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports Design Basics

Crystal Reports provides you with a variety of options for formatting your report, including grouping, sorting and totaling. Crystal Reports also enables you to format the visual elements of your report, such as fonts, character styles, borders, graphics and headers.

To demonstrate formatting features, this chapter shows how to format a report on the Customer table of the Sports2004 sample database. For procedures on creating a sample database, see Chapter 1, " Introduction."

Specifically, this chapter covers:

Organizing report data
Defining report appearance
Note: This chapter provides only introductory information on report formatting. For detailed information on formatting reports and organizing data within a report, refer to the Crystal Reports User’s Guide and online Help.