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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook - Second Edition

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 is a business management solution that helps simplify and streamline highly specialized business processes. Learning NAV programing in NAV 7 gives you the full inside view of an ERP system. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook covers topics that span a wide range of areas such as integrating the NAV system with other software applications including Microsoft Office, and creating reports to present information from multiple areas of the system,. We will not only learn the essentials of NAV programming, you will also be exposed to the technologies that surround NAV including.NET programming, SQL Server and NAV system administration. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook is written in a direct, to-the-point style to help you get what you need and continue working in NAV. The first half of the cookbook will help programmers using NAV for the first time, by walking them through the building blocks of writing code and creating objects such as tables, pages, and reports. The second half focuses on using the technologies surrounding NAV to build better solutions. You will learn how to write .NET code that works with the NAV system and how to integrate the system with other software applications such as Microsoft Office or even custom programs. You will learn everything you need to know for developing all types of NAV CSIDE objects, as well as how to integrate and maintain a NAV system.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgements
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Although reports are similar to pages, they serve a different purpose in NAV. Pages exist primarily for data entry while reports show a higher-level view of what is going on in the database. Reports can be customer-facing documents, such as order confirmations and invoices or used for internal analysis, such as aged accounts receivables and aged accounts payable. They can also be used to process large amounts of data.

As developers, it is our job to design the dataset and visual layout of these reports. First, we use the Report Dataset Designer in Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Environment to define the dataset of the report by choosing table as dataItem and field, variable, expression, or a text constant as column. Next, we design Client Report Definition Layout (RDLC) for reports that are used to print or display data. We use the Visual Studio report designer to design an RDLC layout. The following table will help to understand the different types of reports:

Report type...