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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By : Alexander Drogin
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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By: Alexander Drogin

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suite for organizations. The system offers specialized functionality for manufacturing, distribution, government, retail, and other industries. Its integrated development environment enables customizations with minimal disruption to business processes. The book starts explaining the new features of Dynamics NAV along with how to create and modify a simple module. Moving on, you will learn the importance of thinking beyond the boundaries of C/AL development and the possibilities opened by with it. Next, you will get to know how COM can be used to extend the functionalities of Dynamics NAV. You’ll find out how to extend the Dynamics NAV 2016 version using .NET interoperability and will see the steps required to subscribe to .NET events in order to extend Dynamics NAV. Finally, you’ll see the cmdlets available to manage extension packages. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge needed to become more efficient in selecting the extending methods, developing and deploying them to the Dynamics NAV, and practicing the best practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook
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Preface

Analyzing data with Power BI


Power BI is an analytics solution for various kinds of data study, evaluation, and presentation. With Power BI, it is possible to generate a wide variety of reports from a simple table view or bar chart to complex statistical data analysis.

Getting ready

Power BI must be installed to complete the following scenario. It is available to download from powerbi.microsoft.com.

How to do it...

Now we will build a report in Power BI presenting the sales report in a bar chart, with a simple hierarchy for periods.

  1. Run the Power BI application.

  2. In the Home tab of the ribbon, click Get Data, then choose SQL Server.

  3. In the connection setting dialog, enter the name of your SQL Server where the NAV database resides. By default, when installing NAV in Developer configuration, a new SQL instance is installed on locahost\NAVDEMO.

  4. Enter the database name. The default name for the demo database is Demo Database NAV (9-0). The database name is optional in this step, and can be selected later...