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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is widely used in enterprises with its enhanced reporting features, but there still isn’t a book that covers reporting in depth, until now. This book will show you what’s possible and exactly how to develop reports for Dynamics NAV 2009. Learn why reports are designed in a specific way and then apply this knowledge to your advantage. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting is an essential guide to understanding the effort involved in creating reports in Dynamics NAV 2009, and all of the available reporting possibilities. Reading this book will result in a better understanding and it will help you save time during development.The book starts with an overview of what kind of reports you can create without a developer using charts, dimensions, and analysis views. The next chapter will introduce the new architecture of Role Tailored Client (RTC) reports and the basics on how to create them or have them generated. Moving on we will discuss data visualization, where you will learn how and when to implement all the available Visual Studio controls. Document reports and other types of specific reports are covered next, and you will get to know all the best workarounds for getting them to work correctly.Knowing other related features is vitally important to obtain a helicopter view of all the reporting possibilities of Dynamics NAV, and the next chapter will introduce Business Intelligence concepts and available technologies that could be used in combination with the Dynamics NAV database. Technology is evolving rapidly and new versions of Dynamics NAV are in the pipeline, so the book will also provide you with a view to the future and how to prepare for it.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Interactive sorting


You can give the user the possibility to change the sorting on reports at runtime. This is achieved via properties on column headings to provide interactive sorting in a report. You can specify sorting for multiple columns in the same table, list, or matrix, and for nested or grouped data.

To specify interactive sorting:

  1. Right-click a column heading (for example, a column in a table header), and select Properties to open the Text box Properties dialog box.

  2. Click on the Interactive Sort tab.

  3. Select Add an interactive sort action to this text box.

  4. To specify a sort expression, select the field that corresponds to the column for which you are defining a sort action (for example, for a column heading named "Title", choose =Fields!Title.Value). Specifying a sort expression is required.

  5. Select the data region and scope for the sort. This step determines whether the sort action applies to all of the data regions in a report, is limited to the data region that contains the text box...