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NPO Solutions provides both basic and advanced training options for using Crystal Reports with FIMS.

Becoming a good report writer requires that an individual master a report-writing tool and understand the database behind the reports. A Crystal Reports training class will teach you to use the tool (Crystal Reports), but it cannot teach you about your database (FIMS). We can teach you both.

Our training solutions fit your time schedule, educational needs and financial requirements. We offer regional hands-on training seminars, on-site visits, online individualized training, and online classroom training.

Note: Our Crystal Reports training is tailored specifically for FIMS clients. We do not offer general Crystal Reports training.


Crystal Reports Boot Camp
These intensive, three-day programs provide the opportunity to network and exchange valuable information with other community foundations about best business practices and effective FIMS and Crystal Reports techiques. Topics include:

Report Creation and Design
The FIMS Database
  • Setting Up The Design Environment (Recommended Settings)
  • Absolute and Conditional Formatting
  • Grouping vs. Sorting
  • Report Experts vs. Blank Reports
  • Creating Formula Fields
  • Using Parameter Fields
  • Using Special Fields
  • Record Selection
  • Group Selection
  • Graphing
  • Creating Linked and Unlinked Subreports
  • Where in FIMS is the data I am looking for?
  • Connecting to your database
  • Creating Table Relationships
  • Common Table Relationships
  • Using Dictionary and Query Files
  • Ad Hoc FIMS Queries
  • SQL Expressions and Long Text Fields

Crystal On-Site Visits
On-site training can include seminar-style presentations for the entire staff or small groups, and/or "over-the-shoulder" guidance using your own FIMS database. On-site training can be tailored to your organization's needs and to address specific issues that you have at your organization.

Crystal Online Training
NPO provides two types of live, online training: individualized training that focuses on the needs at a specific foundation, and online classroom training that allows several foundations to participate in a remote Crystal Reports training session. Both allow foundations to receive instruction without ever leaving the office.

With our individualized online training, NPO instructors use remote-connectivity software to connect to your computer via modem or the Internet and teach staff over the phone using a copy of your real data in the Test and Learn Database. With a speaker phone, two or three people may participate. Training is tailored to the needs of the individual and arranged in discrete blocks of time to minimize the disruption of the regular work schedule.

Our online classroom training employs WebEx, an interactive, online meeting center that allows several customer sites to attend FIMS sessions at one time. All participants view Crystal Reports on the trainer's workstation and are connected via telephone.

Our online class schedule is now available.

 


   
 
     
 

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