Programming without an overall architecture or design in mind is like exploring a cave with only a flashlight: You don't know where you've been, you don't know where you're going, and you don't know quite where you are. | ||
| --Danny Thorpe | ||
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. | ||
| --Winston Churchill | ||
In NAV 2013, Reports and Queries are two ways to output data (and in the case of Reports, also to manipulate data) for the purpose of presentation to a user. Each of these objects uses tools and processes that are NAV based for the data extraction (XMLports, which also can extract and manipulate data, will be covered in a later chapter). In this chapter, we will focus on understanding the strengths of each of these tools, when and how they might be used. We will cover the NAV side of both Queries and Reports in detail to describe how to get the data we need to present to our users. We will cover the output formatting and consumption...