Use template reports to improve productivity, Crystal Report 10 template Technology

Reusing in reports
The most demanding and time-consuming part of the report design process is to format all your reports into a unified look. Many companies require report designers to comply with corporate standards, such as letterhead or certain requirements of the GAAP/SEC specification.
In an ideal world, this requires less work if the Report Designer is allowed to focus on formatting a report and use it as a guide to all other reports that require visualization and presentation of quality. When a report is formatted appropriately, why not apply its content and formatting to other reports? In Crystal Report 10, it is very concise to apply the layout of an existing report to other reports. This is possible by customizing the report template feature.
This white paper is designed to help you learn more about the report template functionality in Crystal Report 10 and how to use it to improve the efficiency and productivity of report design in your organization.
Directory
Reusing in reports
Understanding report Templates
Working with report templates
Use the existing Crystal Report as a template
Why templates are superior to the styles in previous versions (STYLES)
Create a valid report template
Considerations for designing efficient templates
Working with Template Field objects
Use report templates to simplify the amount of report creation
Apply multiple templates
Summarize
Understanding report Templates
A report template can be considered a marriage between data (in the original report) and a layout (template report). Templates contain the basic structure-how to display and format reports when the corresponding fields are added to the report.
A report template is actually a common report file (RPT). This means that you can use virtually any RPT file as a report template. Templates can be applied to other reports, so their formatting and layout can be used as the basis for other reports. Apply the template to other reports, layout, etc. formatting will be applied to the report. This example is a report with four fields in the detail section, and all sections are squeezed together before the quality template is applied. When you apply a template, the position of the field in the template forces the fields in the existing report to extend, and the font is applied.
Working with report templates
Templates can store many types of objects. These objects can be applied to reports when the central data portion of the report design process is completed. Applying an existing template to a report can save hours, or even days, of a common formatting task.
Some of the types of tasks that can be accomplished by applying a template to a report are: