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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is widely used in enterprises with its enhanced reporting features, but there still isn’t a book that covers reporting in depth, until now. This book will show you what’s possible and exactly how to develop reports for Dynamics NAV 2009. Learn why reports are designed in a specific way and then apply this knowledge to your advantage. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting is an essential guide to understanding the effort involved in creating reports in Dynamics NAV 2009, and all of the available reporting possibilities. Reading this book will result in a better understanding and it will help you save time during development.The book starts with an overview of what kind of reports you can create without a developer using charts, dimensions, and analysis views. The next chapter will introduce the new architecture of Role Tailored Client (RTC) reports and the basics on how to create them or have them generated. Moving on we will discuss data visualization, where you will learn how and when to implement all the available Visual Studio controls. Document reports and other types of specific reports are covered next, and you will get to know all the best workarounds for getting them to work correctly.Knowing other related features is vitally important to obtain a helicopter view of all the reporting possibilities of Dynamics NAV, and the next chapter will introduce Business Intelligence concepts and available technologies that could be used in combination with the Dynamics NAV database. Technology is evolving rapidly and new versions of Dynamics NAV are in the pipeline, so the book will also provide you with a view to the future and how to prepare for it.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making a report available in the Role Tailored client


Once you have developed and tested your report you want the end user to be able to run the report. For this you will have to make your report available in the Role Tailored client. To do this, carry out the following steps:

  1. In the Classic client, open Object Designer, and then click Page.

  2. Select the page to display the report, for example, Page 22, Customer List.

  3. Click Design to open the page in Page Designer.

  4. Select an empty line in the designer. Click View, and then Actions to open Action Designer.

  5. Scroll down to the ActionContainer that has Reports as its subtype.

  6. Add an action to the list; in the Caption field enter a name for the action, and in the Type field, select Action.

  7. Click View, and then Properties to open the Properties window for the new action.

  8. In the Value field of tRunObject property, , click the drop-down arrow and select the new report in the Object List window.

  9. Set the PushAction property to RunObject, set the Promoted property...