Course Outline

[jlopeman]

Good morning fellow Crystal Reporters...

I've been tasked to come up with a training course for Crystal Reports XI. I found one post on this site where someone else asked the same question, but the URLs in the post no longer work.

Here is a very high-level course outline that I've come up with.
1.) Connect to a database - DSNs, Excel.
2.) Simple record selection
3.) Formatting - text boxes, number formatting, etc.
4.) Summaries
5.) Multi-table reports
6.) Grouping
7.) Formulas
8.) Parameters
9.) Sub-reports
10.) SQL commands
11.) Stored procedures.

The class will be composed of my colleagues that, for the most part, are reasonably familiar with SQL. I figure 3 work days for this training which will include "lecture," lab work, and Q/A.

What does the community think? With budget restrictions, hiring a training company is not an option. Any resources that I should take a look at? Am I forgetting anything?

Regards,

JL

 

[kray4660]

What you have come up with sounds similar to the training I had some years ago. I know of only a few books that are available, I do not know of anything online (other than some videos on youtube) that would be good for a classroom setting.

Lots of luck.

 

[Madawc]

There are some good CD courses for Crystal: you could structure your course about one of them. This also means you can do them individually.

Since these and personal training are a source of income to some people, I doubt you'd find anyone doing them free.

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Crystal 11.5 with SQL and Windows XP