eReport Designer Professional - Course Description

The focus of this four-day intensive course is to develop the skills necessary to quickly build and maintain a sophisticated corporate reporting system using Actuate e.Report Designer Professional. This comprehensive course includes discussions of Actuate Reporting System theory, followed by hands-on exercises designed to teach students to capture and present key corporate data in an effective, concise and timely manner.

In a lab environment, students develop complex Actuate reports that require the customization of Actuate Basic code. Although not required, it is strongly recommended that attendees have some level of programming experience with object-oriented languages, SQL and/or Visual Basic.

This course includes a comprehensive course manual that is yours to keep. It's easy to read and is an excellent reference book to assist in managing Actuate reporting systems after the class is completed.


Course Outline

  • Actuate Reporting System overview
  • Understanding report groups, sections and subsections
  • Building sequential and parallel reports
  • Understanding object inheritance
  • Making connections to multiple databases
  • Understanding custom data streams
  • Understanding libraries
  • Designing Reports for the Web

Course Objectives

The specific objectives of this course are to teach the student:

  • Actuate Reporting System overview and demonstration
  • Designing, building and viewing simple reports
  • Connecting to databases and custom data sources
  • Understanding page layouts
  • Creating SQL Queries with the Actuate Query Editors
  • Understanding the stored procedure builder
  • Understanding Expression Builder (column creation)
  • Understanding report groups--sections and subsections
  • Building sequential and parallel reports
  • Understanding project Browsers(Global/Project)
  • Using Acuate's dynamic text control and page sizing features
  • Creating Crosstab Reports
  • Working with Charts
  • Creating and using hyperlinks in Actuate reports
  • Designing report parameters
  • Understanding libraries and working with components
  • Understanding commonly-used AFC methods
  • Understanding Actuate's debugging tools
  • Designing reports with Page Security
  • Designing reports for the web
  • Designing browser scripting controls
  • Designing Actuate XML reports
  • Understanding and customizing configuration files

Course Prerequisites

To get the most out of the course students should be familiar with the following:

  • Structured Query Language (SQL)
  • Report writing
  • Visual Basic programming or comparable language
  • Object-oriented concepts

Length of course: 4 days
Cost: $2,600 per student


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