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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

Business Central report types

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...