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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By : Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By: Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics Business Central is a full business solution suite and a complete ERP solution, which contains a robust set of development tools; these tools can help you to gain control over your business and can simplify supply chains, manufacturing, and operations. Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise covers the latest features of Dynamics Business Central and NAV from the end users' and developers' perspectives. It also provides an insight into different tools available for implementation, whether it's a new installation or migrating from the previous version of Dynamics NAV. This book will take you from an introduction to Dynamics NAV 2018 through to exploring all the techniques related to implementation and migration. You will also learn to expand functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation. As you progress through the book, you will learn to work with third-party add-on tools. In the concluding chapters, you will explore Dynamics 365 Business Central, the new Cloud solution based on the Microsoft NAV platform, and techniques for using Docker and Sandbox to develop applications. By the end of the book, you will have gained a deep understanding of the key components for successful Dynamics NAV implementation for an organization.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Business Charts


The Windows client and the Web client can display a set of predefined charts that use Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central data; queries can be used as data sources for those charts in both systems.

There are two types of charts:

  • Standard Charts (available in Windows client only)
  • Business Charts (available with JS add-ins)

Note

You can read more about business charts concepts and components at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-nav/displaying-charts-using-the-chart-control-add-in.

Standard Charts in Windows Client

We will use the query defined earlier on in this chapter as the data source of a chart, and we will display it on the home page of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-premise Windows client.

To define a query as the data source of a chart, perform the following steps:

  1. Open the Windows client for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise.
  2. Navigate to Departments | Administration | Application Setup | RoleTailored Client...