Datasheet

Report and Dashboard Creation
Crystal Reports Server lets you view,
share, and manage the reports
designed in Crystal Reports and also
dashboards designed in Xcelsius soft-
ware. Crystal Reports is a powerful
tool built to address diverse data for-
matting and presentation requirements.
For novice report designers, Crystal
Reports includes intuitive wizards, tem-
plates, and experts to simplify common
reporting tasks. For more advanced
users, Crystal Reports includes fine-
grained control over most features –
including formulas, conditional format-
ting, and object positioning – to address
specific customization requirements. It
also includes the powerful editable pre-
view feature, which allows report design-
ers to edit a report template with data
retrieved from the database. Dynamic
cascading prompts enable end users
to select parameter values from a
dynamic list populated at runtime from
a data source. As a result, end users
are presented with options that are
always valid.
Figure 9: The Publishing Wizard
12 SAP Functions in Detail – Crystal Reports Server