Report Standards 1

[makk07]

Hi Everyone,

At my job my manager ask me to prepare documentation on "Report Design & Coding Standards" for Crystal Reports XI.

I mean she ask me to write down the best "report standards" by keeping in mind that reports get published to "Business Objects Enterprise". And these report standards are going to follow by everyone in reporting department while designing reports.

So please anybody let me know where I can find Report Standards also I am new to report development.

Thanks!!

 

[Madawc]

Where I work, we put a version number in the header, along with report title and the department that uses it. A history of changes is included as a comment in Version Number, which is a formula field. Parameters are also shown there, or 'none' if it has none.

In the footer, we put the file name and path, reduced to small font size. This is a 'special field' and is very useful to trace where a report was actually run from.

For efficiency, note that subreports are very inefficient. That Crosstabs should be used wherever possible.

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Windows XP & Crystal 10

 

[IdoMillet]

If you search the Crystal forums (I believe forum 4 is the best match) you'll find prior discussion of this topic.

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