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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Third Edition

By : Alex Chow
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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Third Edition

By: Alex Chow

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application used in all kinds of organizations around the world. It provides a great variety of functionality out-of-the-box in different topics such as accounting, sales, purchase processing, logistics, or manufacturing. It also allows companies to grow the application by customizing the solution to meet specific requirements. This book is a hands-on tutorial on working with a real Dynamics NAV implementation. You will learn about the team from your Microsoft Dynamics NAV partner as well as the team within the customer’s company. This book provides an insight into the different tools available to migrate data from the client’s legacy system into Microsoft Dynamics NAV. If you are already live with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, this books talks about upgrades and what to expect from them. We’ll also show you how to implement additional or expanding functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, debug error messages, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation. This book will empower you with all the skills and knowledge you need for a successful implementation.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Charts


Graphical information is always useful when analyzing data. Dynamics NAV offers various ways of viewing data in a graphical way.

The Show as Chart option

Whenever the information shown on the screen can be viewed as a chart, the Home tab of the ribbon will contain a section called View where the users can switch the view of the information from List to Chart, and vice versa.

Let's see an example of how to build a chart based on the customer list:

  1. Type Customer in the search box of the Dynamics NAV Windows client.

  2. Select Customers. The customers list will be shown.

  3. Click on Show as Chart. An empty chart will be shown. We will have to select a measure and the dimensions we want to use to build our chart.

  4. Select Sales ($) as the measure.

  5. Select Country/Region Code as the dimension on the right of the chart.

  6. The chart will be drawn.

    We can quickly see that US is the country where our sales are concentrated.

Adding charts to the Role Center page

Dynamics NAV has a set of predefined, generic charts...