Chapter 14 Designing Effective Report Templates
In this chapter
Understanding the Importance of Reuse in Reporting 320
Understanding Report Templates 320
Using Existing Crystal Reports as Templates 321
Understanding How Templates Work 323
Creating Useful Report Templates 324
Using Template Field Objects 326
Using Report Templates to Reduce Report Creation Effort 332
Applying Multiple Templates 333
Crystal Reports in the Real World—Standardized Templates 333
Understanding the Importance of Reuse in Reporting
Up to now, you’ve been creating feature rich reports that are very functional. Most likely, no two of the resulting reports from the previous chapters have a consistent look and feel.
One of the ...
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