Report Development; Using Crystal Reports; Uninstalling Crystal Reports - Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 02-2010 Installation Manual

NOTE: Reports that query a large date range might take sometime to run. They can be scheduled
instead of running interactively. For information about scheduling Crystal Reports, see
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7.9.3 Report Development

The Crystal Reports Developer can be used to create or modify Crystal reports. For custom
developed reports, the following is recommended:
If the reports can utilize predefined aggregate tables, select the aggregate table that results in
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processing of the least amount of data.
Try to move most of the data processing to the database engine.
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To reduce processing overhead on the Crystal server, minimize the amount of data to retrieve to
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the Crystal server.
Always write reports against the database views provided by Novell, instead of writing reports
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against the base tables.

7.10 Using Crystal Reports

For more information on using Crystal Reports Server for Sentinel Reporting, see
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7.11 Uninstalling Crystal Reports

1 On the Windows desktop, go to Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.
2 Select Crystal Reports, then click Remove.
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