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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

By : Rabindra Sah
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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

By: Rabindra Sah

Overview of this book

The book begins by giving you a brief introduction to setting up your NAV environment and shows you how to install and configure it according to your requirements. You will then dive deep into the latest design patterns, network architecture, and topologies. We will show you how you can integrate NAV with the Microsoft platform, and secure your deployment by managing roles and permissions. Moving on, we will explain how to monitor and manage server instances using the Administration tool. We’ll discuss how you can take advantage of the expanded extensibility and connectivity capabilities for a tighter integration with the cloud as well as handheld devices. Then, we’ll show you how you can make use of the PowerBI capabilities that have been built into Dynamics NAV. By the end of the book, you will be confident in developing and administering a Dynamics NAV implementation that will leverage all of the new features.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Performance tuning in reports


Reports are the ultimate truth in the ERP system. The processes that are carried out inside the business logic and algorithms to calculate different values does not matter much to the user, all they need in the end is the report or document which provides the understanding of the data they feed the system. All they care about is fast running, good-looking reports. Even most projects heavily rely on the addition of many custom reports and/or the customization of existing reports to adjust to the needs of the client.

In reality, you must understand how bad reports with large runtime can affect the overall performance of the system. Let's discuss how we can tune up reports in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Creating new reports

While creating a report, you might have noticed that there are two major phases:

  • Construction of dataset

  • Creation of report layout

All other operations can be included in these two major phases. It is essential to understand the importance of understanding...