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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide Get up and running with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612769
Length 210 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexander Drogin Alexander Drogin
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with the NAV Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Codeunits - Structuring C/AL Code 3. Tables - Creating Data Structure 4. Designing User Interface 5. Exchanging Data with XML Ports 6. NAV Event Model 7. Presenting Data in Reports 8. Debugging Your Code 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Modeling a report layout

The dataset is prepared, and now we are ready to launch the next phase of report development: turning the raw data into a presentable graphical view. In this part of our development experience, we step away from the NAV object designer, as the layout design is carried out in an external editor.

While the underlying dataset is the responsibility of NAV, the presentation layer is a Report Definition Language Client Side (RDLC) report project, which is designed and executed by external components.

Layout design

At this point, we still need the NAV object designer to start the RDLC report designer. To begin creating the report layout, open the report object in the NAV report designer and run the View ...

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