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Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Sixth Edition

By : Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker
Book Image

Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Sixth Edition

By: Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a full ERP business solution suite with a robust set of development tools to support customization and enhancement. These tools can be used to tailor Business Central's in-built applications to support complete management functions for finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations. Using a case study approach, this book will introduce you to Dynamics 365 Business Central and Visual Studio Code development tools to help you become a productive Business Central developer. You'll also learn how to evaluate a product's development capabilities and manage Business Central-based development and implementation. You'll explore application structure, the construction of and uses for each object type, and how it all fits together to build apps that meet special business requirements. By the end of this book, you'll understand how to design and develop high-quality software using the Visual Studio Code development environment, the AL language paired with the improved editor, patterns, and features.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Successful Conclusions

Generating the layout

Now that we have defined our dataset, we can create the layout. Business Central supports both RDLC, which can be edited in Visual Studio, and SQL Report Builder, and it also supports Microsoft Word.

Both layouts can be added to the report definition using the WordLayout and RDLCLayout properties:

To generate the layout, we need to package our application, which can be done from the Command Palette:

This screenshot shows the generated RDLC, which is essentially to XML syntax:

Let's see if we can run our report. To do that, we will publish our extension without startupObjectId:

In the Business Central session, we will use the searchbox and type in the word radio , which will show our report:

When you click on the report and select Preview, you should see an empty layout.