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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By : Alexander Drogin
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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By: Alexander Drogin

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suite for organizations. The system offers specialized functionality for manufacturing, distribution, government, retail, and other industries. Its integrated development environment enables customizations with minimal disruption to business processes. The book starts explaining the new features of Dynamics NAV along with how to create and modify a simple module. Moving on, you will learn the importance of thinking beyond the boundaries of C/AL development and the possibilities opened by with it. Next, you will get to know how COM can be used to extend the functionalities of Dynamics NAV. You’ll find out how to extend the Dynamics NAV 2016 version using .NET interoperability and will see the steps required to subscribe to .NET events in order to extend Dynamics NAV. Finally, you’ll see the cmdlets available to manage extension packages. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge needed to become more efficient in selecting the extending methods, developing and deploying them to the Dynamics NAV, and practicing the best practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook
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Preface

Writing RDLC code in a report


In the following recipe, we will develop a scenario similar to the earlier Designing the report request page recipe. Based on the report 50020 Sales By Customer/Item, we will create a new version including expected amounts, but instead of requesting the user to select the representation mode, we will highlight the amounts awaiting invoicing, using RDLC formatting tools.

The filename in source files is, REP50040_RDLCCode.

Getting ready

The current walk-through is based on an object designed and developed in the recipe Writing C/AL code in a report. Before starting the following example, complete the prerequisites or import the report 50020 Sales By Customer/Item from the source files.

How to do it...

  1. Open the report 50020 Sales By Customer/Item in the NAV Report Designer.

  2. The expected cost and expected sales amounts will be exported to the report separately from the actual amounts, and later analyzed in the RDLC code. In the list of columns of the Integer data item...