Crystal Reports in the Real World—Standardized Templates
Arguably the most powerful use of report templates is simply adding consistent headers and footers. As described previously, the job of placing header and footer information in exactly the right place time after time is time-consuming and boring. A very simple template can give you a head start on basic formatting.
To create your template, an image of the company logo will be used. For this example, the Business Objects logo (saved in JPG format) from the corporate Web site is used.
1. | Begin by creating a new report without a data source, as described earlier in the chapter. Your starting point should look like Figure 14.12.
Figure 14.12. A blank canvas for the report template. |
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