Special Edition Using® Crystal Reports® 10

Advanced Crystal Analysis Designer Tools

Chapter 19, ”Creating Crystal Analysis Reports,” introduced the most traditional and common multidimensional or OLAP analytic objects with the Worksheet and Charting objects. Crystal Analysis provides four other analytic objects that can be used to enhance and extend end-user interactivity with the involved reports past the traditional boundaries of other OLAP Client products. The next few sections introduce their powerful capabilities.

Using Dimension Explorer Objects in Crystal Analysis

The Dimension Explorer gives users direct control of the view of a cube from outside of the worksheet. This object, shown in Figure 20.1 with all options turned on, enables users to dynamically change cube orientation ...