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Title: Crystal Reports 8.5: The Complete Reference by George Peck, Michael Mueller, Lyssa Wald ISBN: 0-07-219327-1 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 26 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.46 (13 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: How about the INCOMPLETE Reference
Comment: This book was a waste of money. It is more of a beginner's guide and tutorial than a reference book. Needs to add a reference section for all of the functions available in the formula editor. Even though the cover claims .NET programming, there were no samples. The CD contains only 24 sample reports (they could of used a floppy instead). If you are new to Crystal Reports go ahead and get this. If you have any experience don't bother.
Rating: 5
Summary: A good reference book
Comment: I develop financial reporting applications for various companies using VB and VBA. Recently I have completed a financial reporting system completely within Access 2000 making extensive uses of Access's report objects.
Although the Access report object does its job well, it lacks a lot of power features, i.e., limited grouping capabilities, formula in text boxes is limited to a simply expression unless you make a call to UFD, then you would loss your object encapsulation, etc, The Data Report object is VB6 is still some what of a joke, but let not open this can of worms. Thus, I have chosen Crystals reports for my developing needs.
I find George Peck's Complete Reference series very helpful. The book has 800 pages to teach me every nuance of Crystal. This book does not teach me anything about VB coding nor does it contain a reference to the object model within the RDC or any of the other object models in Crystal. I didn't buy this book to learn how to code. The author noted in page 659 specifically that the book is not meant to teach you Visual Basic.
Overall, this book gets me up to speed quickly and it's a good reference source for my future needs. Personally, I don't find the crystal help files very helpful.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not much different than Crystal's own manual
Comment: I purchased this book as a reference. Fortunately, I had a separate training course for learning the Crystal application. And I now teach the product.
It's a good reference. I truly haven't had a question yet regarding basic or advanced procedures in the application that I couldn't find. But I would not recommend it for learning the application. It is dense.
I'm also disappointed that it is not very different from the CR 8.0 manual published by Crystal Decisions. The layout and procession of the book are virtually the same! It could have included more tutorials, too.
One thing that I would love for any CR reference/manual to include is a list and description of all the formulas in the system. To my knowledge, this does not exist anywhere, even in Crystal's own documentation.
PURCHASING RECOMMENDATION
If you need a solid reference and didn't purchase manuals with Crystal, this will work. If you need to learn the product, get something else.
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Title: Crystal Reports: A Beginner's Guide by David G. McAmis ISBN: 0072193263 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 03 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Crystal Reports 8 for Dummies by Douglas J. Wolf ISBN: 0764506420 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 26 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Special Edition Using Crystal Enterprise 8.5 by Steve Lucas, Roger Sanborn ISBN: 0789726165 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 31 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Crystal Reports 8.5 Quick Start Workshop by Fastplanet Technologies, FastPlanet Technologies ISBN: 1930026218 Publisher: FastPlanet Technologies Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Crystal Reports 8.5 Power User Workshop by Fastplanet Technologies, FastPlanet Technologies ISBN: 1930026226 Publisher: FastPlanet Technologies Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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