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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By : Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By: Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics Business Central is a full business solution suite and a complete ERP solution, which contains a robust set of development tools; these tools can help you to gain control over your business and can simplify supply chains, manufacturing, and operations. Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise covers the latest features of Dynamics Business Central and NAV from the end users' and developers' perspectives. It also provides an insight into different tools available for implementation, whether it's a new installation or migrating from the previous version of Dynamics NAV. This book will take you from an introduction to Dynamics NAV 2018 through to exploring all the techniques related to implementation and migration. You will also learn to expand functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation. As you progress through the book, you will learn to work with third-party add-on tools. In the concluding chapters, you will explore Dynamics 365 Business Central, the new Cloud solution based on the Microsoft NAV platform, and techniques for using Docker and Sandbox to develop applications. By the end of the book, you will have gained a deep understanding of the key components for successful Dynamics NAV implementation for an organization.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Understanding report development


Report development is completely different from what it used to be. The report development experience changed in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 with the introduction of the Report Definition Language Client-side (RDLC) report, but it changed again with the actual release of the application.

With Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, RDLC-based reports were introduced, but reports were still compatible with the classic definition of reports in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. RDLC reports were actually based on the classic definition of the report.

From Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, the classic definition of reports has disappeared and only RLDC-based reports are available. This is why the report development experience has changed again. It now resembles the development experience for pages, queries, or XML ports.

With the advent of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015, a new way of managing reports was introduced: Word Report Layout. A Word report layout is based on a Word document (.docx...