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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

By : Rabindra Sah
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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

By: Rabindra Sah

Overview of this book

The book begins by giving you a brief introduction to setting up your NAV environment and shows you how to install and configure it according to your requirements. You will then dive deep into the latest design patterns, network architecture, and topologies. We will show you how you can integrate NAV with the Microsoft platform, and secure your deployment by managing roles and permissions. Moving on, we will explain how to monitor and manage server instances using the Administration tool. We’ll discuss how you can take advantage of the expanded extensibility and connectivity capabilities for a tighter integration with the cloud as well as handheld devices. Then, we’ll show you how you can make use of the PowerBI capabilities that have been built into Dynamics NAV. By the end of the book, you will be confident in developing and administering a Dynamics NAV implementation that will leverage all of the new features.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Integration with Jet Express


Jet Express is a report building solution that can be used alongside Microsoft Dynamics NAV for some specific report design solutions. Sometimes, it is also known as a complete business intelligence Excel-based Dynamics NAV reporting tool. There are some instances where designing reports using a Dynamics NAV system might not be a feasible solution. It's predefined or preconfigured in Dynamics NAV. It is very easy to link, and you can use it to create reports in Excel. Let's perform the following steps to configure the Jet Express with the Dynamics NAV system:

  1. Go to https://www.jetreports.com/ and download Jet Express for Excel with the Dynamics NAV software:

  2. After you download the product, just follow the installation instruction as with any other software on Windows:

    Tip

    If you are using the previous version, then in the last step, do not forget to select the option to put the Jet add-ons for Excel. It is not required for the newer version.

    Now you can see a...