Creating a Report in NAV 2015

Because our NAV report layouts will all be developed in SSRB or Visual Studio, our familiarity with NAV C/SIDE will only get us part way to having NAV report development expertise. We've covered most of the basics for the C/SIDE part of NAV report development. Now, we need to dig into the RDLC part. If you are already an SSRB or Visual Studio reporting expert, you will not spend much time on this part of the book. If you know little or nothing about either of these tools, you will need to experiment and practice.

Learn by experimentation

One of the most important learning tools available is experimentation. Report development is one area where experimentation will be extremely valuable. We need to know which report layouts, control settings, and field formats work well and which do not. The best way to find out is by experimentation.

Create a variety of test reports, beginning with the very simple and getting progressively more complex. Document what you...