The standard Business Central application uses only a few of the possible report styles, most of which are in a relatively basic format. The following are the types of reports that are included in Business Central:
- List: This is a formatted list of data. A standard list is the Inventory - List report (report 701):
- Document: This is formatted similarly to a pre-printed form, where a page (or several pages) contains a header, detail, and footer section with dynamic content. Examples of document reports include customer invoice, packing list (even though it's called a list, it's a document report), purchase order, and accounts payable cheque. The following screenshot is a customer Sales-Invoice document report preview:
List and document report types are defined based on their layouts. The following three report types are defined based on their usage rather than their layouts, and are as follows:
- Transaction: This provides a list of ledger entries...
