To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. | ||
| --Milton Glaser | ||
Complexity is the problem. Ease of use is the solution. Productivity is the result. | ||
| --Unknown | ||
In NAV 2015, Reports and Queries are two ways to extract and output data for the purpose of presentation to a user (Reports can also modify data). Each of these objects uses tools and processes that are NAV based for the data extraction (XMLports, which also can extract and modify data, will be covered in a later chapter). In this chapter, we will focus on understanding the strengths of each of these tools and when and how they might be used. We will cover the NAV side of both Queries and Reports in detail to describe how to obtain the data we need to present to our users. We will cover output formatting and consumption of that data in less detail. There are currently no wizards available for either Query building or Report building; therefore, all the work must be...