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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Reporting

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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Reporting

Overview of this book

Resources such as the book you now hold in your hand are critical to taking the extra step in uncovering the trends locked deep within your data. Not only will this book offer insight into the many reporting tools currently available for GP, it will also offer a unique perspective on how each reporting tool can be used to meet specific challenges faced by your organization" - Errol Schoenfish, a member of the Microsoft Dynamics community for over 24 years Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 is a sophisticated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system with a multitude of features and options. Microsoft Dynamics GP enables you to create and manage a variety of reports that help small and mid-size businesses effectively manage their financial and operational data. This book will show you how to create and manage reports, know what tools to use and when, how to use them and where to find the data based on how it's being entered into the system with Dynamics GP. This book will empower you with the tools and reports necessary to use Dynamics GP data in making key business decisions. The book addresses the many challenges and frustrations a company may face when preparing to build new reports. Then it moves on to explain how to find your data in the GP system and company databases. The book then dives deep into topics such as SmartLists, SL Builder and Excel Report Builder, Report Writer, SSRS Report Library, and Analysis Cubes Design and Management Reporter amongst others. With this knowledge in hand, you will be capable of selecting the most effective tool for the current reporting environment.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Reporting
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a new reporting metric via Report Builder


Earlier in this chapter, we discussed the deployment of pre-defined Charts and KPIs that can then be made visible on the GP 2010 Homepage. In this section, we'll take a look at creating a metric that shows us the top ten items on un-posted sales orders by extended price. A metric of this sort can give members of our organization insight into which items are generating the most sales at the moment. As the data source for this metric, we'll use one of the SQL views that is generated in each GP company database by the predefined Excel Reports deployment that was covered in Chapter 3 of this book: dbo.SalesLineItems. Remember, SSRS metrics are only available for GP 2010 and SQL Server 2008 environments!

In the previous example, we used Visual Studio to modify a canned report. In this example, however, we are going to use the Report Builder to create a new metric from scratch. Report Builder is a component of SSRS that can be used to modify and...