I’ve been to a number of presentations over the years for Crystal Reports and one of them always fascinated me. On the screen the upper left quarter is a summary report, showing 6 months of monthly totals and grand total for sales numbers. The upper right quarter is a chart of those summaries.
This part is easy. It’s just a chart using underlay to display just to the right of the summary. I’ve done this one a million times.
Now the interesting part. When the presenter clicks on a monthly total, a grid (or crosstab) shows in the bottom half of the screen with the all the detail for that month.
I’m now in a position where the users want that.
This not drill down or a hyperlink, both of which display a new report page with the drilldown info. I can do these with my eyes closed (metaphorically speaking :-D )
This is all one page and the grid changes depending on which month is clicked.
My hunch is that its done in BO or Visual Studio or an ASP page or Java. Does anyone have any tips, tricks or insights into how this bit of screen prestidigitation is done?
We’re using CRXi R2 and BOXi R2.
One other thing, when asked what tool was used to create the demo, ‘they’ always say ‘Why with Crystal of course’.
Thanks in advance for any info or thoughts into this.
This part is easy. It’s just a chart using underlay to display just to the right of the summary. I’ve done this one a million times.
Now the interesting part. When the presenter clicks on a monthly total, a grid (or crosstab) shows in the bottom half of the screen with the all the detail for that month.
I’m now in a position where the users want that.
This not drill down or a hyperlink, both of which display a new report page with the drilldown info. I can do these with my eyes closed (metaphorically speaking :-D )
This is all one page and the grid changes depending on which month is clicked.
My hunch is that its done in BO or Visual Studio or an ASP page or Java. Does anyone have any tips, tricks or insights into how this bit of screen prestidigitation is done?
We’re using CRXi R2 and BOXi R2.
One other thing, when asked what tool was used to create the demo, ‘they’ always say ‘Why with Crystal of course’.
Thanks in advance for any info or thoughts into this.