In this chapter, we covered the Report Writer tool in GP 2013. 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 2013 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 added the Word template functionality to Dynamics GP 2010 and expanded on it in later versions by offering several new Word templates and a very useful Word Template Generator. Rather than printing clunky Report Writer reports to screen, numerous reports can now be printed to a Microsoft Word document...