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Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports

By : Mahmoud Elkoush
Book Image

Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports

By: Mahmoud Elkoush

Overview of this book

<p>Reports are documents that present focused, salient content to a specific audience. Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application that will help you design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources. It helps you summarize a good deal of information in a visually appealing manner.</p> <p>"Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports" is a practical, hands-on guide that will provide you with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises, and help you take advantage of the real power of Crystal Reports. This book will not only help you create effective reports, but also teach you how to create a reporting application.</p> <p>"Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports" will guide you through the installation of Crystal Reports and Visual Studio. As you progress from one chapter to the next, you will gradually build a reporting application. You will also learn how to select the right data, and enhance your report by grouping and sorting data. This book will also help you create chart reports to improve your report design. With this book, you will learn how to create a complete reporting application and a wide variety of reports.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Performing page setup


When we work with Cross-Tab we need to be careful with the page size because the width of the report grows dynamically. If we try to test the Cross-Tab by inputting the value USA, we will see that the report is divided into two parts as shown in the following screenshot:

This problem occurs because the value USA has many corresponding values for cities in our database and our report is designed to display and print in a portrait letter form. We can change the basic page settings by right-clicking on the report and navigating to Design | Page Setup. This is shown in the following screenshot. The page size has been changed to A3 and the Orientation to Landscape.

If we test by inputting the value USA again, the result will look like the following screenshot: