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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

Changing the template


When you click on the View | Layout option for a report that does not have an enhanced layout, then an empty enhanced layout is created. But, did you now know that Dynamics NAV uses a template for this, and that you can make changes to this template?

The template can be found in the installation directory of the Dynamics NAV 2009 Classic client. The default location is:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\60\Classic

As you can see in the following print screen, there are actually two templates:

  • ReportLayout2005

  • ReportLayout2008

When you are using Visual Studio 2005 then Dynamics NAV will use ReportLayout2005 and when you use Visual Studio 2008 then Dynamics NAV will use ReportLayout2008.

Inside the ReportLayout2008 folder, you can see the following files:

You can open this template by double-clicking on the file: ReportLayout.sln. Visual Studio will open and you will see an empty report layout, as you do when you create a new report from within Dynamics NAV.

You can...

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