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Creating Commands in Crystal Reports via MS Excel
Many transactional tables in databases are big. I mean, huge. I have seen tables with 35,000,000 records. Imagine writing a report with four or more tables when the data resides in monstrous tables....
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Crystal Reporting: A Case Study
Note that this case study applies to the Lawson application but just as easily could be applied to any custom report question. A client of mine recently gave me an interesting reporting request: Does...
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One Report, Multiple Output Options
One of the disadvantages of using groupings in a single Crystal report is that the export into Excel makes the data unsortable. However, there is a neat way around this. You can use the suppressing...
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Suppressing Values in a Crystal Report
A simple rule of reporting is that adding tables and views increases the amount of time for the report to run. Many first-time report writers believe that you have to add multiple instances of a table...
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Thoughts on Learning Tableau
Introduction Back in the late-1990s through the late-2000s, I spent a great deal of time writing reports for my clients. To be sure, the methods varied. One of my go-to applications was Crystal...
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