New to Crystal Reports...

Post Author: skyygirl12
CA Forum: General
I have developed using Visual Basic - and now am being asked to handle somethings to migrate over to Business Objects... which is totally fine.
However, I am finding myself stumped on a few things. One being - creating a dynamic CR report where parameters are passed..
Example: A report to pull Customer Service interaction data based on specific dates and groups - then being able to present to management who would be using InfoView - the ability to change the Customer Service Group and Dates and refresh the report.
I have done tons of reading - and worked with examples - etc. But none are doing what I would like to see.
Any points in the right direction would be VERY helpful.
TIA!

Hi Venkatesh,
You can find the information about crystal reports [here|http://help.sap.com/]
Regards,
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