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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Reporting Cookbook Update

You're reading from   Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Reporting Cookbook Update Over 90 recipes to help you resolve your new SSRS Reporting woes in Dynamics AX 2012 R3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784395384
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding and Creating Simple SSRS Reports FREE CHAPTER 2. Enhancing Your Report – Visualization and Interaction 3. Report Programming Model 4. Report Programming Model – RDP 5. Integrating External Datasources 6. Beyond Tabular Reports 7. Upgrading and Analyzing Reports 8. Troubleshooting and Other Advanced Recipes 9. Developing Reports with Complex Databases 10. Unit Test Class and Best Practices Used for Reports Index

Creating a simple precision design


Precision designs are the most flexible and creative design in SSRS reporting in which you can design your report in a flexible manner. Precision design is a report design created by the SQL Report Designer in Visual Studio. It is like a pre-defined format, in which you know the format of the report and are designing it according to that format. Precision designs are flexible and offer abundant options to customize your report by allowing you to decide the location, font, and much more.

Getting ready

This recipe will use the RDP created in the Creating a simple RDP report recipe to create a precision design report.

How to do it…

  1. Open Visual Studio and create a reporting project. Add a report and name it PktInterestCalcReport.

  2. Add a dataset and change the property Data Source Type to Report Data Provider. Click on the Query property button to view the list of the RDP classes.

  3. Select the RDP class created and click on Next to add the fields. Expand the dataset...

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