Special Edition Using® Crystal Reports® 10

Using Report Templates

Think of a template as the form that everyone in a company must comply to. Templates can house many types of objects. These objects can be applied to a report after the data-intensive portion of the report design is completed. Applying an existing template to a report can save hours or potentially days of mundane formatting tasks.

Some types of tasks that can be accomplished by (but are not limited to) applying a template to a report are as follows:

• Corporate logos and other images

• Consistent page numbering formatting

• Font style/color/typeface for data fields

• Field border and background formatting

• Field sizing

• Group headers and footers formatting

• Summary field formatting

• Watermarks

• Tricky formatting

• Lines

• Boxes

• Repository objects ...