Reports

Some consider the standard library of reports provided in the NAV product distribution from Microsoft to be relatively simple in design and limited in its features. Others feel that the provided reports satisfy most needs because they are simple but flexible. Their basic structure is easy to use. They are made much more powerful and flexible by taking advantage of NAV's filtering and SIFT capabilities. There is no doubt that the existing library can be used as a foundation for many of the special reports that customers require to match their own specific business management needs.

The fact remains that NAV's standard reports are basic. In order to obtain more complex or more sophisticated reports, we must use the features that are part of the product or feed processed data to external reporting tools. Through creative use of these features, many different types of complex report logic may be implemented.

First, we will review different types of reports and the components...