USER'S GUIDE - ShipWeight

8.2 Developing Own Crystal Reports
8.2.1 The Report Creation Wizard
ShipWeight is delivered with a set of sample reports to be used with the
Report Viewer. In many cases, the easiest way of creating your own report will
be to modify one of the sample reports. This is especially useful if you just
want to do minor changes such as inserting your company logo or change the
formatting of a report.
In this session, we will create a new report from scratch using the ‘Report
Creation Wizard’.
To start the wizard, you need to press the ‘New Report’ button on the toolbar:
Now, the ‘Report Creation Wizard’ will appear. This wizard will guide you
through the process of creating a report.
The first step is to choose the data you want to report on. Basically, this
means choosing the database and tables to use in the report.
The Data window of the wizard contains a list of ‘Available Data Sources’ on
the left side, and ‘Selected Tables’ on the right side.
In the list of ‘Available Data Sources’, you first expand the branch named
‘Create New Connection’. This is done either by clicking the small plus sign or
by double clicking it with the mouse.
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ShipWeight – User’s Guide, version 10.0, April 2011