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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By : Alexander Drogin
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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

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. Its integrated development environment enables customizations with minimal disruption to business processes. The book starts explaining the new features of Dynamics NAV along with how to create and modify a simple module. Moving on, you will learn the importance of thinking beyond the boundaries of C/AL development and the possibilities opened by with it. Next, you will get to know how COM can be used to extend the functionalities of Dynamics NAV. You’ll find out how to extend the Dynamics NAV 2016 version using .NET interoperability and will see the steps required to subscribe to .NET events in order to extend Dynamics NAV. Finally, you’ll see the cmdlets available to manage extension packages. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge needed to become more efficient in selecting the extending methods, developing and deploying them to the Dynamics NAV, and practicing the best practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Developing Word layout for RDLC reports


Besides an RDLC layout, a report can have a layout designed in MS Word specifically for the task of exporting the report into a Word document. A NAV report object can have two built-in layouts: one RDLC, and one Word layout.

Getting ready

The file name in the source files is REP50070_ItemSalesWordLayout.txt.

The Word layout for the report is in Report50070Layout.docx.

How to do it...

Now we will add a Word layout to the report created in the previous recipe.

  1. Open report 50010 in the Report Designer, then save it as a new report 50070 Item Sales Word Layout.

  2. Create the built-in Word layout for the report: in the main menu, click Tools | Word Layout | New.

  3. Export the layout into a Word file: click Tools | Word Layout | Export, then choose a file name for the layout file.

  4. Open the file you saved in Step 3 in Microsoft Word.

  5. To edit the Word report template, you will need access to the Developer ribbon tab. By default, it is hidden, so you'll need to show it. Right...