Business Objects Crystal Reports Professional Edition XI Media kit W-0RP-E-WX-00 User Manual

 
 
 
 

 
Business Views 
Access to Business Views eliminates the hassles associated with manually moving 
reports from development to production. 
 
BusinessObjects Universes 
Connect to BusinessObjects™ Enterprise universes, a powerful semantic layer 
that masks the complexity of the data, so that new or less experienced users can 
still understand the data. 
 
Updated Drivers 
Crystal Reports XML, JDBC, IBM DB2 and Exchange data drivers have been 
updated to give you an incredible range of data access options. 
 
Dynamic Image Location 
Pictures and graphics can now be placed in a report through a link in the database 
so that it is no longer necessary to store images within the database. This supports 
the common practice of storing images on the web server and storing references 
to those images in the database. 
 
Updated Visual Report Designer 
Use the updated point-and-click designer to create reports and alleviate intensive 
coding.   
 
Intelligent Charting 
New drag and drop charting and cross-tabs allow for intelligent charting. 
Variables are approximated when a chart is dropped into a section. Chart design 
is now faster and easier because charts will be updated automatically when new 
variables are added. 
 
Hierarchical Grouping 
Layout control is enhanced so that users can create their reports in a hierarchical, 
rather than just a relational manner. This provides a better fit for organizational 
charts and summary reports. 
 

 
Dynamic and Cascading Prompts 
Report prompts can be based on dynamic values. This means that report 
designers no longer have to maintain static prompt value lists within individual 
reports. Instead, they can reuse existing prompts stored in the repository.