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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Reporting Cookbook

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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Reporting Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Reporting Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding an image in auto design


Images can easily be displayed in SSRS reports along with data in Dynamics AX R3. We can control the images dynamically at runtime by using expressions. This recipe will help you learn about using images in a report and using expressions to choose the images dynamically. A new column will be added to the report that indicates whether the transaction date was before or after the due date.We will use a tick image to show whether the transaction date was before the due date and a cross image for transactions that are after the due date. A visual expression is easier to identify than just having a Boolean type value.

How to do it…

  1. Identify the images that are going to be used and set them with right resolutions. (Syncfusion® Metrostudio has been used to generate these images.)

  2. On the Images node, right-click and add a new image.

  3. Locate the path of the image in the ImageSource property of the Images node.

  4. The image is imported and a thumbnail becomes visible. The system...