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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 Professional Reporting

By : Steven Renders
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 Professional Reporting

By: Steven Renders

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 Professional Reporting
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating links


Sometimes, as a user, when you run a report and analyze the information that is displayed on it, you might require more in-depth information about related subjects. The report may show a document number, or an item or customer number and you want to provide the user with a way to drill through to the document report or item card or customer list page. You can do this by creating links. A link can be created in several ways. First we will have a look at how it works in the layout and then at the kind of links that can be used.

Links always start from inside a textbox in the layout of a report.

Note

Remember that a chart also contains textboxes, the difference is that a chart renders them differently. This can also be applied to parts of a chart.

When you right-click on a textbox and go to its properties, have a look in the Action pane:

Here is where you can define an action or, in other words, a link or a hyperlink:

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