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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting

You're reading from   Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting Discover all the tips and tricks for Dynamics NAV report building

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849682442
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Charts and Dimensions FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a Report in the Classic Client 3. Creating Role Tailored Reports 4. Visualization Methods 5. Developing Specific Reports 6. Other Reporting and Business Intelligence Tools 7. A View of the Future Index

Expanding/collapsing report sections


In RDLC reporting, you can control the visible (or should I say hidden) properties of any control in a report. This feature can help you create so called drill down reports.

A drill-down report is an interactive report that allows you to expand and collapse sections of the report to display information when desired.

By using dynamic visibility, you can create a report that enables the user to show or hide the detail it contains. You can hide any report item based on the contents of other report items including groups, columns, or rows in a table or matrix.

Hidden report items enable the user to toggle between summary and detail views ("drilling down"). When the report is rendered, the user can click the text box to expand and collapse the detail data.

Follow these steps in Report Designer to create this drill-down effect:

  1. Select the group, column, or row to hide.

  2. Set its hidden state to True.

  3. Set the toggle item to the name of a text box in a containing group...

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