In this chapter, we covered the Report Writer tool in GP 2010. As one of the oldest report writing tools associated with Dynamics GP, numerous reports in the current versions of GP originated and are still maintained with Report Writer. Although newer, easier to use reporting tools continue to be developed, developers and consultants will still find themselves needing a bit of Report Writer "know-how" in order to make modifications to the standard GP 2010 reports!
Just as we covered one of the oldest reporting tools in the Dynamics GP space, we also took a look at one of the newest tools in the same arena. In an effort to provide us with more user-friendly, portable reports, Microsoft has added the Word template functionality to the latest version of Dynamics GP. Rather than print clunky Report Writer reports to screen, numerous reports can now be printed to a Microsoft Word document. This Word document can then be formatted, saved, and even attached to an email document. We think...