Report components – detail

Earlier, we reviewed a list of the components of a report object. Now, we’ll review detailed information about each of those components. Our goal here is to understand how the pieces of the report puzzle fit together.

Report properties

A subset of Business Central’s report properties is shown in the following screenshot. Some of these properties have essentially the same purpose as similarly named properties in pages and other objects:

Figure 5.9 – Subset of properties for the report object

The properties in the preceding screenshot are defined as follows:

• Caption or CaptionML contains the defined caption for different languages, including English.
• Description: This is for internal documentation.
• UseRequestPage: This can either be true or false, and controls whether or not the report will begin with a request page so that user parameters can be entered.
• ProcessingOnly: This...