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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 Professional Reporting

You're reading from   Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 Professional Reporting Discover tips and trick for Dynamics NAV report building

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785284731
Length 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. How Do I Start to Create a Report? FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with the Tablix 3. Expressions 4. Data Visualization Techniques 5. Document Reports 6. Tips and Tricks 7. Performance Optimization Techniques 8. Word Report Layouts 9. Power BI 10. Reporting Services 11. Charts in Dynamics NAV Index

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In Dynamics NAV, before version 2009, in the classic client, the report layout was developed in what was called the Section Designer. This was a layout designer that was optimized to create simple ERP types of reports without using data visualizations, though it contained some nice features that we use a lot in ERP reports. Two of these features are transheader and transfooter, sometimes also referred to as transport or running totals.

The idea behind it is that, when report information spans over multiple pages, you add a row (or a textbox or another report item) to the top of the next page that contains a total of the information that was shown in the previous page. Similarly, at the bottom of the page, you can also display a page total. You need to use an expression in the rdlc report layout, because there are no transheader of transfooter report items in the toolbox.

What you need is some kind of variable that can contain a page total (one or multiple) for...

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