Report fundamentals

Report is another very important object type in Dynamics NAV. Customers are only concerned with the page to enter the data and the reports to get the output in the form of documents and statistics. They do not really care about what goes on inside the system or the database. So, they are choosy about the look and feel of reports. You must be very careful while designing reports because it can be really time consuming and you might end up billing more hours just on the reports, and at the end of the day, the total cost of the project might be huge.

To avoid these conditions, you must understand what a person needs to consider while designing and developing a report in Dynamics NAV. The following is the description of the components of s report. It mainly consists of property, trigger, data item, labels, request page, and RDLS data:

The Report design process is divided into two distinct phases that reflect the different aspects of creating a report:

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