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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is widely used in enterprises with its enhanced reporting features, but there still isn’t a book that covers reporting in depth, until now. This book will show you what’s possible and exactly how to develop reports for Dynamics NAV 2009. Learn why reports are designed in a specific way and then apply this knowledge to your advantage. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting is an essential guide to understanding the effort involved in creating reports in Dynamics NAV 2009, and all of the available reporting possibilities. Reading this book will result in a better understanding and it will help you save time during development.The book starts with an overview of what kind of reports you can create without a developer using charts, dimensions, and analysis views. The next chapter will introduce the new architecture of Role Tailored Client (RTC) reports and the basics on how to create them or have them generated. Moving on we will discuss data visualization, where you will learn how and when to implement all the available Visual Studio controls. Document reports and other types of specific reports are covered next, and you will get to know all the best workarounds for getting them to work correctly.Knowing other related features is vitally important to obtain a helicopter view of all the reporting possibilities of Dynamics NAV, and the next chapter will introduce Business Intelligence concepts and available technologies that could be used in combination with the Dynamics NAV database. Technology is evolving rapidly and new versions of Dynamics NAV are in the pipeline, so the book will also provide you with a view to the future and how to prepare for it.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Linking reports


Linking a report to another report or to a page can provide a very big added value to a report. It allows for a deeper integration with the Role Tailored client and also other applications your customer might be using. Instead of them having to search for related information the report will be connected to all related information, independently where it is stored. Adding links in enhanced reports is very easy and is available on report items and in data regions. You could for example also make a link between the report and a SharePoint environment. This allows for the creation of connected dashboards.

When you add a link to a text box, image, or chart element, you can specify one of two types of links:

  • A link to a URL provides a link to a web page, typically outside the report

  • A bookmark link provides a link to a bookmark, or anchor, within the current report

You can see this when you open the property window of a text box and click on the Navigation tab, as shown in the following...