Crystal Report 10 expands its own characteristic set from version 9, to deliver the most stable and test version. It also includes several characteristics of more productivity and ease of use, and runs throughout the report generation process. For current users, this version contains hundreds of improvements, enhancements, and user feedback patches. In addition, the close integration of crystal enterprises is also the core concern of version 10.
● Report design
● Report view and interact
● Application integration and deployment
● Crystal report characteristics set outline
http://www.businessObjects.com/products/reporting/crystalreports/features.asp
Characterization (PDF - 84 KB) - List of Crystal Reports from Version 6 to 10
Http://www.businessObjects.com/global/pdf/products/crystalreports/cr10_feat_ver_ed.pdf
System Demand - Installing and Running Crystal Reports 10 to the minimum requirements of your computer.
http://www.businessObjects.com/products/reporting/crystalreports/sysReq.asp
* Note - The following features are different from the version.
Report design
Crystal Report 10 provides several new designer enhancements to increase flexibility and control of data display.
● Format Painter
Save time to format reports, formatted painters allow you to copy complete formatting options between objects between objects. You no longer need to apply color, format, and font style, respectively.
● Funnel chart
Meet the customer relationship management (CRM) program to display the data display. The new funnel chart displays data in a striking manner, with a total of 100% - such as, by showing sales data in a funnel-shaped chart, you can easily analyze sales channels.
● Warehouse browser
Simplify the sharing of report objects in multiple report designers. Now, the Enhanced Warehouse Browser toolbar provides search and filtering based on object type (/ or) text values. For ease of identification, you can add tooltips to the warehouse object.
● Asymmetric report
Provides customized views for OLAP grids. Using asymmetric reports, you can hide specific dimensions of data so that end users can only see related and valuable data.
● Level page number
Add a level page number to your report. Use a special field to add a page number to the cross report.
● Manageable warehouse
Crystal Report 10 - With Crystal Enterprise 10 - can help report designers get huge efficiency during report design and maintenance. Warehouse - Storage, Sharing, and Central Places for Updating public report objects - now is the characteristics that can be managed in crystal enterprises *. Organizational organizations now can create management systems for report design and maintenance. Warehouse objects can be protected and shared by crystal companies, and can be generated using a crystal report designer. In order to easily convert version 9's warehouse to a new manageable repository, a migration tool is also included.
* Include the entry-level version of the crystal enterprise only in some versions of the crystal report.
Report view and interaction
Crystal Reports 10 provides more choices for information consumers to view, print, and export reports.
● Export to Excel.
Maintain control of the exported to Excel. Crystal Report 10 is a huge flexibility to export fully formatted reports to Excel. For example, the user can now select all the header / footer and decide whether to display the grid line.
● Enhanced DHTML viewer prints.
End users can print the report from the DHTML viewer only one click. Crystal Report 10 contains an updated DHTML report viewer control, which simplifies the printing process and does not need to be exported to PDF.
● Print server-side in Windows and .NET programs.
Print from any Windows machine. Using crystal companies in continers - included in the Senior Developer Edition of Crystal Reports - You can enable server-side printing. Application integration and deployment
Crystal Report 10 simplifies the process of integrating dynamic information into .NET, Java, and COM web program, and reduces code quantity. With the version 10, Business Objects consolidates its cross-platform development commitment through several new features, and is easier to migrate to crystal companies.
● 100% Java Report Components.
Working with your J2EE app with a crystal report. Crystal Report 10 introduced a 100% Java version, a powerful crystal report report engine. This new report engine will help you make full use of Java, including transplantability across operation systems and hardware platforms. It connects data for developers and designs easy to integrate into JSP, providing a quick, not programming. Java report components are also integrated with popular integrated development environments, including Borland JBuilder X and BEA WebLogic Workshop.
● Simplify the .NET merge module.
Easily deploy your .NET app. Crystal Report 10 reduces the number of merged modules to meet the requirements of easy deployment .NET program. The four core merge modules can handle eight specific deployment scenarios for Windows programs, ASP .NET programs, web service programs. Soon, these merge modules will provide users with all version 10 in the developer community.
http://www.businessObjects.com/products/dev_zone/net/default.asp
● Simplified Report Application Server (RAS) APIs.
Write less code to achieve common functions. In the Senior Developer Edition of Crystal Report 10, developers complete the code quantity required for the most common tasks - use report application servers - significantly reduced, making it easier to integrate. Simplified tasks include setting parameters, login, and printing.
● Customized Java label library.
Reduce the amount of code required to integrate reports to the JSP page. Crystal Report 10 introduces a customized Java tag library that can significantly reduce the amount of code required to integrate reports to the Java application. Using custom JSP tags, developers can easily add custom viewers to the web program.
● Upgrade from .NET to crystal enterprises.
Easily upgrade your .NET app to crystal companies. Crystal Report 10 introduces a seamless upgrade solution that enables the program, use the .NET report component (bundled in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Borland C # Builder, or Crystal Report 9/10), access crystal enterprises and Report Application Server. With the least coding, .NET developers can make full use of the benefits of the independent report processing server. This also makes it possible to easily upgrade to other versions of crystal companies in the future.
● Enhancements in .NET Web Form Viewer.
Add your .NET Report Viewer's impact. The .NET Web Form Viewer enhances usability, consistency, and customization capabilities, thereby bringing huge flexibility to development. For example, now you can use the Visual Studio .NET designer, modify the font styles and colors of the group trees in the web form on the viewer (Viewer-by-viewer).
● The performance improvement of .NET data set.
Improved the processing performance of the crystal report and reduces memory usage, enhances the processing performance of the data set in memory.
* Note - The above features are different from the version.
