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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

You're reading from Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

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Published in Jan 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786460608

Pages 458 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Alexander Drogin

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

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About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Writing Basic C/AL Code

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

Analyzing data with Power BI

Power BI is an analytics solution for various kinds of data study, evaluation, and presentation. With Power BI, it is possible to generate a wide variety of reports from a simple table view or bar chart to complex statistical data analysis.

Getting ready

Power BI must be installed to complete the following scenario. It is available to download from powerbi.microsoft.com.

How to do it...

Now we will build a report in Power BI presenting the sales report in a bar chart, with a simple hierarchy for periods.

Run the Power BI application.
In the Home tab of the ribbon, click Get Data, then choose SQL Server.
In the connection setting dialog, enter the name of your SQL Server where the NAV database resides. By default, when installing NAV in Developer configuration, a new SQL instance is installed on locahost\NAVDEMO.
Enter the database name. The default name for the demo database is Demo Database NAV (9-0). The database name is optional in this step, and can be selected later...

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Authors (1)

Alexander Drogin

Alexander Drogin started working with Navision Attain version 3.01 in 2002 as a software developer at a consulting company. After seven years of development, he shifted his focus to end-user support. In 2012, he joined the Microsoft Russia development team as a software engineer in testing, and worked on NAV test automation and sustained engineering tasks. He currently works as a NAV technical architect for a Microsoft partner in Malta.

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