Chapter 13: Report Templates | Mastering Crystal Reports 9

Chapter 13 - Report Templates
Mastering Crystal Reports 9
by Cate McCoy and Gord Maric
Sybex 2003

Overview

Many of the reports you’ll create as a report designer will begin with an existing report. It’s a logical first step to speed up development. Often when you are asked to develop a custom report, you’ll notice that what one customer is asking for is very similar to what you’ve done for another customer. And so you’ll open that report, save a copy of it with a new name, and then start modifying it to fit the new situation. Report developers have been using this approach for years. With the new version of Crystal Reports, the team at Crystal Decisions acknowledges this need for quick starts and has built it in as a new feature in the product. Crystal Reports now allows you to save and apply report templates, which makes it even easier to reuse existing report elements.

Featured in this chapter:

Creating a template
Applying a template to your report
Working with template field objects
Using an existing report as a template


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