title: Composite reporting, Crystal Reports difficult to manage
body: <p>I was wondering if someone had a suggestion on how to best do composite reporting.
  I have tried to accomplish this with Crystal Reports [CR] (The one that comes with VS2k8) but for a codemonkey like me, it's hard to grasp the design part...</p>
  
  <p>I have found that CR works nicely for reporting on tabular and repeatable data, but I can't grasp how to do what I want it to do.</p>
  
  <p>What I want is a nice front-page, with title, subtitle and possibly some other text.
  Maybe a TOC.
  A summary report, consisting of some calculations and text-summaries calculated beforehand (not using the reporting tool).
  Then a listing of one type of data, normal tabular.
  Then another type of data, also tabular.
  Then a drill-down on the first type of data. (Every "line" in the first type has 1..* associated items).</p>
  
  <p>It looks to me like I have to do them all in separate reports, then "concatenate" the resulting reports to one another to get one report. And the front-page and the summary page I have no idea how to do at all.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a better tool for doing this? Or does anyone have a good "quick-start" on composite reporting with CR? :)</p>
  
  <p><em>EDIT: Oh, and these will only be used in printed-form. So no dynamic drill-down and such are necessary.</em></p>