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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

By : Alexander Drogin
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

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. This book gets you started with its integrated development environment for solving problems by customizing business processes. This book introduces the NAV development environment – C/SIDE. It gives an overview of the internal system language and the most essential development tools. The book will enable the reader to customize and extend NAV functionality with C/AL code, design a user interface through pages, create role centers, and build advanced reports in Microsoft Visual Studio. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to extend the NAV data model, how to write and debug custom code, and how to exchange data with external applications.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Presenting Data in Reports

Reports are always among the key requirements set for an ERP system. The ability to present data in an informative and well-structured way, and the possibility to quickly develop a report, are inevitably demanded from the system. Microsoft Dynamics NAV comes with a built-in report designer, which enables the developer to structure the dataset. The dataset is further carried over to the external layout designer, where dataset fields and variables are bound to the presentation layer.

Thus, the development of a NAV report is split into two phases: the data preparation step in the NAV report designer, and the report layout design, which is effected in Microsoft Visual Studio or Report Builder for SQL Server.

Now, we will take a tour of the different types of reports that can be created in NAV and cover the topics listed here:

  • Preparing a report dataset
  • ...