Seagate Crystal Reports : Best Report Writing Tool In The World
Seagate Crystal Reports is a high powered reporting tool, which is recognised by the industry as one of the best report writing tool in the world, so much so, that Microsoft has started in offering the product bundled with their well known software packages. Crystal Reports provide powerful query capabilities, and can be used to select, analyse, summarise, and present data in almost any way imaginable - without programming. Crystal Reports include standard reports which could be used by selecting the paper size, and its orientation; font type, size and style; and other cosmetic features. The report writer allows you to change data selection and sorting criteria for the standard reports. Using Crystal Reports, it can be possible for you to modify the form and content of any of the standard reports, with the possibility of creating unlimited number of new reports.
Seagate Crystal Reports lets you create new reports from the custom or existing database tables. It also lets you modify the standard reports to meet your specific needs. It provides the feature of adding or deleting fields, adding or refining, data filtering and sorting, calculation of totals and averages, combining multiple databases, etc. With Seagate Crystal Reports, you can use the already provided customised styles. This allows you to create your reports with high impact presentation, using fonts, graphics files, boxes, lines, and even using objects embedded in other applications. The report writer has an expert wizard, which guides you to the kind of report styles that you want, and helps you in customising your reports.
Seagate Crystal Report version 7.0 has been released with packed features. You can use the standard ODBC and OLE DB to create your reports, and you can also use the IIS Event Log, NT Log, Exchange 97, and Outlook, etc. If you are proficient in Crystal reports, you will find that the interface continues to be straight forward, and there is nothing new to learn.
Seagate Crystal Reports allows integration to Lotus Notes. In using Lotus Notes, you would need to install the Notes drivers at first. These are ODBC drivers, which allow Crystal Reports to use the notes database as RDBMS. When you link to Lotus database, each of your report document, hidden or not, is considered as separate database tables. In case you have a large amount of inheritance between your notes documents, your relationship diagrams may turn out to be messy. The fields that bear the same name are linked together. This is not done by your Seagate Crystal Report. It is the way NoteSQL works. The installation of Seagate Crystal Reports version 7.0 is quite straight forward. All you need to do is to put the CD in your drive, and the auto-run process takes over to guide you through the installation. The installation should not take more than 5 to 6 minutes, if everything goes on well. In order to save yourself few steps, make sure that you have set up your data source, if you are going to use your report writer with an ODBC data source. Before you start to use Notes database, you need to install NotesSQL, with your data source configured. There-after you can be on your way to Crystal Reporting in minutes. Seagate Crystal Reports is the inevitable tool for report writing, with its ability to get connected with most of the known database sources. It hardly matters whether you are a beginner or a professional, and no matter what your database source is, Crystal Report 7.0 would provide you with features which will take your report writing to world class heights.
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