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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

Expanding/collapsing report sections


In RDLC reporting, you can control the visible (or should I say hidden) properties of any control in a report. This feature can help you create so called drill down reports.

A drill-down report is an interactive report that allows you to expand and collapse sections of the report to display information when desired.

By using dynamic visibility, you can create a report that enables the user to show or hide the detail it contains. You can hide any report item based on the contents of other report items including groups, columns, or rows in a table or matrix.

Hidden report items enable the user to toggle between summary and detail views ("drilling down"). When the report is rendered, the user can click the text box to expand and collapse the detail data.

Follow these steps in Report Designer to create this drill-down effect:

  1. Select the group, column, or row to hide.

  2. Set its hidden state to True.

  3. Set the toggle item to the name of a text box in a containing group...