Crystal Reports Crystal Reports is a report generator software based on the Windows report writer and basically gives a programmer the tools to reporting from a wide range of information and data with a minimum of code written .

With this program you can access the information most used databases, using Open Database Connectivity, integrate information from multiple databases into a single report, which can be viewed on the web or embedded in systems business information or print it instantly.

To prepare a report with Crystal Reports using the Report option blank, you must follow the procedure described below:

1. From the File menu, you must select New and then blank report. This enables the Export window database showing all folders and directories where you can find the source of the data.

2. Then in the panel data sources have to click on the + sign to expand the folder and select the type of database you want to use. The login window will appear later and from here you must specify a name for the database, and then click Finish.

3. If the connection is successful, the database window expert redisplays with the contents of the database. After setting up the database, proceed to create the report with Crystal Reports and you must double-click the file in which the report will be created and then click OK.

4. From here you can begin working with the report header, page header, details, footer and report footer.

You can download a trial version lasting 30 days to try Crystal Reports