Test: Crystal Reports XI
When the French Business Objects in December 2003 large competitor Crystal Decisions took about, the many ten thousand enthousiastic users of the flag ship Crystal Reports restrained just the breath. But the immediate on that proposed developments strategy, that within the even year till a complete, but pain lynx product integration should lead, everybody reassured.
Nevertheless are we almost three years further and comes the next step in this trial on the market: version 11 gets - in imitation of the coordinating product line - actually a Roman figure coat attracted and proves once too more that the report generator still alive is.
The layman almost no longer possible yet more functionaliteit terzake in this on self already so somptueuze product to stop. And really.
There are the dynamic and trapsgewijze indications, filled with landlords out a data boss. With this limitsvalue in the indication the landlords in the next choice list, so that longer static lists to not to become Server kept up in separate reports.
A new RTF-export division has been optimized for the working of the generated truces, while the already existing RTF export was more directed on accuracy and the processing of forms.
Images in a report do not Server raised may (for instance) stand longer in the data boss to become, but on a webserver, to which referred becomes in the report with couples. The sorteervolgorde and the most or lowest value can on base of a formula be fixed, so thatreports satisfy can flexible manner at the needs of several users on a lake.
Thanks to the improved hirarchische group, there is more control about the division, so that groups in a hirarchie cures its and so a more detailed influence yield about the leapt in. Also at the usability has been worked through ondermeer a HTMLvoorbeeld on to offer, so that you a better idea get of how the result there will look forward by publication on the web.
For this last possibility is it source even pay attention by the choice of the suitable product variant. There is the bench projects to organize and reports on base of own preferences in files to group. Intelligent designs of diagrams and cross tables are possible through these automatically on base of the data in the report to make.
Via an own XML driver, version XI succeeds to transform to set in it rough XML-truces to geformatteerde reports, or even XML to other sizes as HTML or WML. This driver accepts as source DTD (Document Type Definition) as plans, and on top the Java J2SE 1.4 SDK works.