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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

Report building – phase 2

As we mentioned earlier, there are several tools we can use for Business Central report layout development. The specific screen appearance depends somewhat on which tool is being used.

To begin our report development work in Microsoft Word, we must build our AL dataset definition. Then, we need to navigate to the generated Word document and use the right mouse button to select Open Externally to open up Microsoft Word. We will see the following screen:

To design reports with Microsoft Word, the Developer tab needs to be exposed, as explained in Chapter 1, Introduction to Business Central.

On the right-hand side of the screen is the XML Mapping, which can be activated from the Developer ribbon:

Let's start by adding the report name to our layout. Expand NavWordReportXMLPart and then expand labels. Right-click on the ReportTitle menu and then click on Insert Content Control, as shown in the following screenshot:

Next, we will add some fields to the...