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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

You're reading from   Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook Extend Dynamics NAV 2016 to win the business world

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460608
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexander Drogin Alexander Drogin
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Writing Basic C/AL Code FREE CHAPTER 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

Retrieving data from NAV with Power Query


Power Query is a tool for retrieving data from various data sources, which enables the user to transform, purify, and merge data with ease. Power Query is used to load data into analytical tools, such as Power BI. Data analysis in Power BI is the topic of several recipes to follow, and now we will configure a query to import data into Excel.

Getting ready

If your Microsoft Office version is 2016, Power Query is already a part of the standard setup, no additional steps are required.

For earlier versions of Office, Power Query must be installed separately. It is available for downloading on microsoft.com.

Note

Note that examples in the current and subsequent recipes are based on Office 2016. The Power Query Excel add-in is accessed in the Data ribbon tab in this version. In Excel 2010 and 2013, Power Query actions are located in the ribbon in the Power Query tab.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will use Power Query to export a list of customers with total...

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