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Hello,

Much clearer, thank you.
I'm not sure what everyone has against Crystal Reports, I worked with it and never had any issues.
I think from the other answers a quick tutorial is indeed a good idea. Many report builders allow grouping/summaries and even graphs on the fly. Playing with it is the best way to learn.

Not sure about other reporting tools, but Crystal Reports allows basically two ways of fetching data. You select data from .Net and pass it to the report document allowing more dynamic control or (my favorite) you build a template and just pass some parameters from .Net to it. The report document will fetch the data itself and build the report. (advantage is that you can test the report outside your application)

Concerning the report format I can only give the advice what I always do. That's asking yourself what is important. I use the 7 seconds rule. The first thing any user asks himself when seeing a webpage, a report, a document, ... is "What am I looking at". Attract their attention with showing what the report is about. The next 7 seconds are navigation. The user passed the first 7 seconds and now wants to know how the thing is constructed. (layout, where is which data, etc ...) After that you have their attention and only then will they look in detail.

(PS: I say 7 seconds, it could be 3 or 5 or 2.45, but you get my drift)

Hope this helps.
V.
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