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"Crystal Reports XI The Complete Reference"
Crystal Reports XI: The Complete Reference (Complete Reference Series)

So far I have found it useful on the job.

Of course, it could have more examples at a level a step or two above the obvious.

"Excellent Resource for the Seasoned Professional"
This book provides an excellent reference for Crystal Reports developers. If you utilized Business Intelligence's online training and did not receive any of the handouts or materials, this book covers not only what was taight in the courses but more detailed examples. This is a great resource even for the experienced developer.

"Great reference book for any serious Crystal developer"
I have worked with Crystal Reports since version 8.5 and for about 4 years now. I am currently a Crystal Reports developer and create reports all day for my job. This book is a great tool for learning and provides me access to all the Crystal Syntax functions and other hard to reference materials. This book is also very in-depth and will provide a total knowledge to someone just learning.

The hardest thing with Crystal is that buidling reports is more an art form then science considering the vast amount of options the developer has to solve any given business problem. The best way to learn is get this book and dive in to making reports.

"crystal ix review"
Great book, am learning on my own crystal reports and this book has met my needs and expectations.

"Standard Revision of Solid Reference"
The text is one of the first available for Crystal Reports XI, and is largely a revision of the same material which has been presented in previous editions (which covered earlier versions of Crystal Reports). As you would expect, it does a solid job of covering all the basics. It even goes into some intermediate details in a few sections.

If you are a beginner to Crystal Reports, then the book will be a valuable reference to you. If you're an experienced Crystal Reports developer or you have used previous versions of Crystal Reports, then this book will not get much use. The book does not have many "hints" or "secret tips" that make developing in Crystal Reports easier. However, the amount of material covered is good in that there is not much left out entirely, so even an advanced developer will find bits of useful information, particularly when using Crystal Reports in new ways or on new platforms, etc. For example, the new features presented in Crystal Reports XI are covered in considerable detail, particularly the various methods of implementing new report parameter features. And, thankfully, the sections detailing now-deprecated software components have been removed or minimized.

If you're familiar with the earlier renditions of this book (i.e., for Crystal Reports version 10, etc.), then you will find this rendition exactly as expected.

 

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What our customer's say!

"Review of order", Although I have not had occasion to use this book much since its arrival, it is chock full of information and seems like the ideal reference book for Crystal users. I have just upgraded my Crystal software from version 9 to version 11 where I needed to see differences between the products. This book will be an ideal reference for me in future development of reports.

"Book, good. Crystal Reports, bad.", I had Crystal Reports more than probably anything on the planet. I am biased towards web reporting in that it is where I have to spend my time. Crystal Reports itself may be fantastic in other formats, but for the web reporting, it is horrible.

That said, it also has some pretty poor documentation and support, so that means books like this are essential.

So the book itself is fantastic and you shouldn't be using Crystal Reports without it.

Note that there are many areas not covered by the book in the web reporting wold, and so you will still need to do many Google searches to figure out what is going on, and in the end many times the issue is that Crystal Reports is just buggy.
Occasionally they will patch something, and then it will be less buggy, but then things that previously worked will not, and this book will not (and really can't) account for those changes - so even with this book, you will need other reference resources as well.

"Lots of information, but not as helpful as it should be", This book does have a lot of information. However, of course it's not 100% complete, if that means answering every question anyone will have.

There is a lot of information in this book. However, time and time again I find it not answering my questions. It needs a lot more "fill in the gaps" information about how Crystal Reports works, and the context for what is going on. The author needs to step back in many cases and consider what questions a newbie might have about the topic being discussed.

"Good help crystal developers", This book is very exhaustive and a good reference for those new to the crsytal report world.The only thing I wud have like to see more in this is some more features for business object servers and deployment of crystal reports into business objects. Though same publication has a separate detailed book on Business object but its always helps if few more basic features included here as well.Overall its a good one for new crystal developers.

"Not for beginners", Previous reviews led me to believe that this would be a good overall book, for both training and reference. However, this book is obviously aimed at people who have experience with previous versions of Crystal Reports, not for people who are just starting out. I will probably keep it as a refence guide, but will need to find something else to use as a beginners guide.



 
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"Exhaustive and Detailed", Good Book. Covers 99% of all the topics. Found it very useful. I'm a power user now.

"Not a complete reference", This is one of many books that I have purchase that just act as a standard users manual for the product. What I was looking for are those things that you would usually get in a users manual. I'm trying to develop a table of contents for my report and an index and this book covers neither. The concept that is not being covered is that Crystal Reports really only make one pass at the database to retrieve data so how would you create a table of contents.

 
 
 

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