At its simplest, a drill down is a hyperlink that links back into Dynamics GP. When the user clicks on the hyperlink, the focus changes to Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016, and the linked window opens in GP with the appropriate data. In the real world, a dashboard might display cash balances for each bank account or checkbook in GP terms. The operating checkbook would have a hyperlink attached on the dashboard. Clicking on the link would cause the checkbook register inquiry window to open in Dynamics GP and display information from the operating checkbook.
With regard to Dynamics GP, Microsoft uses the terms "drill down" and "drill back" interchangeably. For our purposes, they are the same thing.
A drill down link can work for inquiries and transactions throughout GP. Since there is little to no documentation on these drill downs, you would think that they would be hard to use, except that Microsoft gave us a huge shortcut. The Office Data Connector...