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Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 - Second Edition

By : Mark Polino
Book Image

Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 - Second Edition

By: Mark Polino

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics GP is a complete ERP solution that is extremely beneficial for small to midsize organizations in helping them grow exponentially. The book shows you in detail how to build great-looking dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP that enhance a company’s decision-making processes. This guide will take you from the basics of setting up and deploying to creating secure, refreshable Excel reports. Using a whole host of tools available within Microsoft Dynamics GP and Excel, this tutorial will show you how to visualize your data using simple conditional formatting techniques and easy-to-read charts, and allow you to make your data interactive with slicers. We will also cover core topics such as Business Analyzer, Microsoft SQL Reporting services reports, BI360, and more. You will find out to use Power BI, share and refresh data and dashboards in Power BI, and use Power BI Query Editor. By the end of this book, you will have all the information required to build interactive dashboards using Dynamics GP.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Creating pivot tables from GP 2016 Excel report data


The starting point for pivot tables is simply to use data in Microsoft Excel 2016. I often present a session titled PivotTables 101. After almost every presentation, at least one person tells me that they almost didn't attend because they "already knew how to use pivot tables." They then tell me that they are glad they attended as they didn't know about many of the simple Excel features that can turn an ordinary pivot table into an amazing report, chart, or dashboard. Together, we will create and use those features now.

Getting data to Excel

To build our first pivot table, let's start with the TWO AccountSummary Default Excel report that we used in Chapter 2, The Ultimate GP to Excel Tool – Refreshable Excel Reports. Then, follow these steps:

  1. In Dynamics GP, on the navigation pane on the left-hand side, click on Financial. The list pane above will change to show financial items.

  2. In the list pane, click on Excel Reports.

  3. In the navigation list...