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Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 - Second Edition

By : Mark Polino
Book Image

Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 - Second Edition

By: Mark Polino

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics GP is a complete ERP solution that is extremely beneficial for small to midsize organizations in helping them grow exponentially. The book shows you in detail how to build great-looking dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP that enhance a company’s decision-making processes. This guide will take you from the basics of setting up and deploying to creating secure, refreshable Excel reports. Using a whole host of tools available within Microsoft Dynamics GP and Excel, this tutorial will show you how to visualize your data using simple conditional formatting techniques and easy-to-read charts, and allow you to make your data interactive with slicers. We will also cover core topics such as Business Analyzer, Microsoft SQL Reporting services reports, BI360, and more. You will find out to use Power BI, share and refresh data and dashboards in Power BI, and use Power BI Query Editor. By the end of this book, you will have all the information required to build interactive dashboards using Dynamics GP.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

What is the M language?


This section is just a FYI kind of section. We've started watching the work we are doing in the Query Editor begin appearing in the applied steps. As we continue working in this chapter, we'll be reviewing and editing the applied steps. As we perform a task that gets recorded as a step, we are actually updating the Power Query Formula Language known as M. M is a bit of an informal name, and it stands for mashup, because we are mashing up data.

The probability is that you'll never need to do anything with the M expression. However, to be on the safe side, let me show you where it is located.

Tip

If you choose to follow along, be aware that one small change can break your data and/or your reports.

  1. Select Advanced Editor from the Advanced area of the View ribbon in the Query Editor, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Advanced Editor will open with the M expression in an editable box:

    Note

    The expression can be copied and placed in a blank query connection on another file...