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Quote ganesh Replybullet Posted: 19 Jan 2007 at 9:01pm

hi brain

i waiting for your book

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Quote veremue Replybullet Posted: 06 Feb 2007 at 6:12am
what system are you using? what database system are you using? you need to identify the tables containing the fields you want on your report. then check how you can link them.
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Quote jr4jane2004 Replybullet Posted: 07 Feb 2007 at 3:45am

Hi Brian,

My name is Renato from Australia. I recently started work as a Business Analyst. I will be using Crystal 10 as a reporting tool. I need a good book to read to fast track my knowledge of Crystal.


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Quote BrianBischof Replybullet Posted: 07 Feb 2007 at 9:22am
Hi Renato,

You can read my upcoming book online for free. It teaches you CR XI, but most of the topics apply for Crystal Reports 10 as well.

http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/CrystalReportsXI.asp
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Quote jr4jane2004 Replybullet Posted: 08 Feb 2007 at 4:36am

Hi Brian,

Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Appreciate it. This will help me learn the software faster.
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Quote htorrescr Replybullet Posted: 20 Feb 2007 at 9:40am
I'm registered now, hope I am lucky enough to have one of those copies :)  Thanks. 
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Quote blackndecker Replybullet Posted: 21 Feb 2007 at 5:54pm
Hi Brian
 
Thanks for the link to your book. I'll be needing it as I have recently started my new role as a Reporting Specialist. Better yet, I might even be fortunate enough to get a free copy of it.
 
Looking forward to utilising this forum a lot.
 
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Quote TokyoAnt Replybullet Posted: 22 Feb 2007 at 10:41pm
Hi Brian,
 
Great to have an opportunity to say hello. I purchased your Crystal for.NET & really enjoyed its friendly style. It was very easy to understand. I had never touched Crystal before. Now I'm up to my neck in it & fortunately you exposed some of its quirks as well as simply 'how to use this'.
 
Is this new book you're talking about the .NET one or a new one, the Encyclopaedia? If it's more focused on Crystal (not .NET crystal), I'd be very interested in checking it out as that's what I'm using now.
 
Thanks very much!
 
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P.S the forum looks good!
 
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Quote BrianBischof Replybullet Posted: 23 Feb 2007 at 12:20am
Hi Ant,

Glad you liked my last book! This new book is a bit of a twist on what is out there now. Instead of writing one book that covers everything and is huge, I'm creating a two volume "Encyclopdia" set of books. The first strictly covers CR XI Professional edition and is only for end users. NO CODE! The second book is an update of my CR.NET 2003 book for the 2005 version. This way you can pick your poison depending upon whether you want the technical or non-technical edition.

I'm very excited because I'm only two chapters away from finishing Volume 1 (XI). But I'm also very nervous because once it's finished there is nothing I can do to go back and make it better if people don't like it. I was hoping that by putting the free chapters online then I would get great feedback from readers. But only a couple people have sent me comments so I don't know if that is good or bad.  Oh well, I'll do the best I can and hope that it helps people and that they are nice to me on the Amazon.com reviews. 

Take care.

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Quote htorrescr Replybullet Posted: 23 Feb 2007 at 6:58am
Hola Brian. I'm sorry I didn't give you my opinion about your free chapters before, I was very busy at work solving some misteries of CR XI, that's why I came to your site and found some very valuable information and I want to give you THANKS for that.  "Writing Functions Manually" was very useful for all of us who don't have too much time to read technical manuals.
 
I want to share something I learned these days working with SQL2005 and CRXI ReportDocument object (VS C#).  I have the next table (just an extract for this example):
 
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Invoice](
 [PK] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
 [GrandTotal] [money] NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
 
GrandTotal is declared of money type, when I change the currency symbol with a formula in desing time it works fine (in preview mode it shows the symbol the formula returns), but in run time it doesn't (still shows the same currency delcared via Customize Formula Editor dialog box).  The solution was to cast GrandTotal to decimal :
 
CAST(Inv.GrandTotal AS decimal(19, 4)) AS GrandTotal)
 
Do you know why this happens? 
Have a GREAT time & thanks again.


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