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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is widely used in enterprises with its enhanced reporting features, but there still isn’t a book that covers reporting in depth, until now. This book will show you what’s possible and exactly how to develop reports for Dynamics NAV 2009. Learn why reports are designed in a specific way and then apply this knowledge to your advantage. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting is an essential guide to understanding the effort involved in creating reports in Dynamics NAV 2009, and all of the available reporting possibilities. Reading this book will result in a better understanding and it will help you save time during development.The book starts with an overview of what kind of reports you can create without a developer using charts, dimensions, and analysis views. The next chapter will introduce the new architecture of Role Tailored Client (RTC) reports and the basics on how to create them or have them generated. Moving on we will discuss data visualization, where you will learn how and when to implement all the available Visual Studio controls. Document reports and other types of specific reports are covered next, and you will get to know all the best workarounds for getting them to work correctly.Knowing other related features is vitally important to obtain a helicopter view of all the reporting possibilities of Dynamics NAV, and the next chapter will introduce Business Intelligence concepts and available technologies that could be used in combination with the Dynamics NAV database. Technology is evolving rapidly and new versions of Dynamics NAV are in the pipeline, so the book will also provide you with a view to the future and how to prepare for it.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Developing Specific Reports

When you implement Dynamics NAV 2009 for a customer, the first kinds of reports you will probably have to work on are the document reports. These reports (for example, Invoice, Credit Memo Picking Slip, and so on) are used in communication between your customer and third parties and so they will need to be modified according to the look and feel used at the customer. To understand the amount of work involved and the types of workarounds that might need to be applied in these reports, this chapter will give you a good overview.

Migrating reports from the Classic client towards the Role Tailored client involves a lot of work and in the end your customer might not even see the difference at runtime between the old reports and the ones migrated with an enhanced layout. To create some added value, you might want to make use of more visualisations like for example conditional formatting, data bars, and spark lines. In this chapter, I will give you a view on...