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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

You're reading from   Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook Extend Dynamics NAV 2016 to win the business world

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460608
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Writing Basic C/AL Code FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced C/AL Development 3. Reporting and Data Analysis 4. .NET Interoperability in C/AL 5. Extending C/AL with COM Components 6. SharePoint Integration 7. Control Add-ins 8. Web Services 9. Events and Extension Packages 10. PowerShell

Publishing NAV reports in SharePoint


NAV page objects can be published on a SharePoint site as SharePoint apps or web parts that will be embedded into site pages. Reports are not so flexible--there is no option to set a report in a page as a web part. NAV reports can only be presented as an application.

Now we will develop a SharePoint app that will expose a NAV report in the site apps list. This recipe is very similar to the Developing NAV apps for SharePoint recipe. Steps overlapping in these two recipes will be outlined here. If you need a detailed description, refer to the aforementioned recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Open your developer site on SharePoint, access the application registration page located on the URL http://<SharePointWebsite>/_layouts/15/AppRegNew.aspx, and register a new app, as described in Developing NAV apps for SharePoint recipe, Step 1 through Step 5.

  2. Run Visual Studio and create a new project. Select the application template App for SharePoint.

  3. Type a name for the project...

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