What is Crystal Reports?

What is Crystal Reports?

SAP Crystal Reports’ core capability surrounds database reporting – connecting to any of a wide variety of databases and data sources and making sense of the underlying data.

What is SAP Crystal Reports 2020?

SAP Crystal Reports 2020 is a powerful design tool, providing almost infinite possibilities for creating a large variety of printed, on screen, or exported reports. To help you make the most of Crystal Reports features and techniques, SAP provides a large selection of sample reports free for the downloading.

How do I download and install SAP Crystal Reports?

Whether you’re using a 30-day evaluation or a fully licensed version of SAP Crystal Reports, you will simply download the installation program from the Crystal Reports website and specify either the 30-day evaluation, or full usage, license key provided to you by SAP.

What is the difference between SAP Crystal Reports and business intelligence?

While SAP Crystal Reports pixel-perfect design options permit an unlimited variety of font, color, shading, and image options, newer data visualization directions in Business Intelligence make use of various types of static and interactive charts.

This tutorial is designed for those who want to learn how to generate simple as well as advanced reports for end-users using the specialized tool of Crystal Reports. Crystal Reports is quite a user-friendly tool.

How to open page layout option in Crystal report?

SAP Crystal Report gives two options of page layout – landscape and portrait. Landscape means the page is oriented horizontally, while portrait means the page is oriented vertically. To open Page Layout option in Crystal Report, go to File → Page Setup.

How long does it take to learn Crystal Reports?

Learning Crystal Reports is not difficult. However, you need to spend a few hours or a few days to learn the basics. I have reached the conclusion that the best way of learning Crystal Reports is through video tutorials. 135 minutes of watching and 5 minutes of reading! Let’s get started.

How to insert a picture in a crystal report?

When you click on Picture, it gives an option to insert a picture in the report. The following common picture formats are supported in Crystal Reports −