With the Times, Crystal Report 10 new features

Crystal Report Crystal Report 10 expands the significant set of features introduced from version 9 to deliver the most stable and time-tested versions. It also includes several more productive and ease-of-use features, and runs through the entire report generation process. For the current user, this version contains hundreds of enhancements, enhancements, and user-feedback patches. In addition, tight integration with the Crystal Enterprise (Crystal Enterprise) is also the core focus area of version 10.

Report Design
Report Viewing and interacting
Application integration and Deployment
Crystal Report Feature Set overview
Http://www.businessobjects.com/products/reporting/crystalreports/features.asp

Feature comparison (PDF-84 KB)-Crystal Report Feature list from version 6 to 10
Http://www.businessobjects.com/global/pdf/products/crystalreports/cr10_feat_ver_ed.pdf

System Requirements-Install and run the Crystal Report 10 minimum requirements for the computer.
Http://www.businessobjects.com/products/reporting/crystalreports/sysreq.asp

* Note-The following features vary by version.

Report Design

Crystal Report 10 provides several new designer enhancements to increase flexibility and control of data presentation.

Format Painter
Save time for formatting reports, Format Painter allows you to copy the full formatting options between objects with one click. You no longer need to apply color, formatting, and font style to each other in multiple operations.

Funnel Chart
Meet the requirements of the customer Relationship Management (CRM) program for data presentation. The new funnel chart displays data in a compelling way, totaling 100%-for example, you can easily analyze sales channels by showing sales figures in a funnel chart.

Warehouse Browser
Simplifies the sharing of report objects in multiple report designers. The Enhanced Warehouse browser toolbar now provides search and filtering based on object type (and/or) text values. To make it easier to identify objects, you can also add ToolTips to the warehouse objects.

Asymmetric report
Provides a customized view of the OLAP grid. With asymmetric reports, you can hide specific dimensions of the data so that end users can see only relevant and valuable data.

Horizontal page number
Add a horizontal page number to your report. Use a special field to easily add page numbers to the crosstab report.

Can manage warehouses
Crystal Report 10-with Crystal Enterprise 101-can help report designers achieve significant efficiencies in report design and maintenance processes. Warehouses-a central place for storing, sharing, and updating public report objects-is now a feature that can be managed in the Crystal Enterprise *. Organizations can now create management systems for report design and maintenance. Warehouse objects can be protected and shared by the Crystal Enterprise and can be generated using the Crystal Report Designer. A migration tool is also included in order to easily convert version 9 warehouses into new manageable warehouses.

* Only some versions of the Crystal Report contain the entry level version of the Crystal Enterprise.

Report Viewing and interacting

Crystal Report 10 provides more choices for information consumers to view, print, and export reports.

Export to Excel.
Controls on exporting to Excel are maintained. Crystal Report 10 introduces a great deal of flexibility for exporting fully formatted reports to Excel. For example, the user now has the option to export all or part of the header/footer and decide whether to display gridlines.

Enhanced DHTML Viewer printing.
The end user can print the report from the DHTML Viewer with just one click. Crystal Report 10 contains an updated DHTML Report Viewer control that simplifies the printing process and eliminates the need to export to a PDF.

Server-side printing in Windows and. NET programs.
Print the report from any Windows machine. Use the Crystal Enterprise inline version-included in the Crystal Report 10 Advanced developer version-you can enable server-side printing.

Application integration and Deployment

Crystal Report 10 simplifies the process of integrating dynamic information into. Net,java, and COM Web programs, and reduces the amount of code. With the release, Business Objects has consolidated its Cross-platform development commitments through several new features, and is easier to migrate to crystal enterprises.

100% Java report components.
Use the Crystal Report with your Java EE application. Crystal Report 10 introduces a 100% Java version of the powerful Crystal Report report engine. This new report engine will help you take full advantage of Java, including portability across operating systems and hardware platforms. It connects data to developers and designs dynamic reports that are easy to integrate into JSP, providing a quick, no programming approach. The Java reporting component is also integrated with the popular integrated development environment, including Borland JBuilder X and BEA WebLogic Workshop.

simplifies the. NET merge module.
Easily deploy your. NET application. Crystal Report 10 reduces the number of merge modules to meet the need for easy deployment of. NET programs. The four core merge modules are capable of handling eight specific deployment scenarios for Windows programs, ASP. NET program, WEB service program. Soon, these merge modules will be available to all version 10 users in the developer community.
Http://www.businessobjects.com/products/dev_zone/net/default.asp

Simplified report Application Server (RAS) APIs.
Writing less code allows you to implement common functions. In the Crystal Report 10 Advanced Developer Edition, the amount of code that developers need to complete the most common tasks-using a report application server-is significantly reduced, making it easier to integrate. Tasks that are simplified include setting parameters, logging in, and printing.

A custom Java tag library.
Reduces the amount of code required to integrate a report into a JSP page. Crystal Report 10 introduces a custom Java tag library that significantly reduces the amount of code required to integrate a report into a Java application. With custom JSP tags, developers can easily add custom viewers to Web programs.

Upgrade from. NET to Crystal Enterprise.
Easily upgrade your. NET application to the Crystal Enterprise. Crystal Report 10 introduces a seamless upgrade solution that enables programs to use. NET Reporting components (bundled with Microsoft Visual Studio. NET, Borland C#builder, or Crystal Report 9/10) to access Crystal Enterprise and report applications Server. With minimal coding,. NET developers can leverage the benefits of stand-alone report processing servers. This also makes it possible for the future to be easily upgraded to other versions of the Crystal Enterprise.

.net the Web Forms viewer enhancements.
Increase the impact of your. NET Report Viewer. The. NET Web Forms viewer enhances usability, consistency, and customization capabilities, thus creating tremendous flexibility for development. For example, now you can use the Visual Studio. NET Designer to modify the font style and color of the group tree on the Web form based on the viewer (Viewer-by-viewer).

Performance improvements for .net datasets.
Improved processing performance for Crystal Reports and reduced memory usage, which enhances the processing performance of data sets in memory.

* Note-The above features vary by version.