Chapter 11 Using Record Selections and Alerts for Interactive Reporting

In this chapter

Introduction 266

Creating Advanced Record Selection Formulas 266

Adding Alerting to Your Reports 273

Performance Monitoring and Tuning 276

Dynamic Cascading Prompts 279

Crystal Reports in the Real World—Web Report Alert Viewing 282

Troubleshooting 285

Introduction

Not all information is fit for all users, so this chapter discusses how record selection can used to limit the data in a report. Hand-in-hand with limiting the data (reducing the recordset also improves speed and performance) is a review of tuning the report. Even when a report is published to BusinessObjects Enterprise (introduced in many chapters later) and much time is invested in correctly architecting ...

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