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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration

You're reading from  Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847198761
Pages 208 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Setting up the Environment for Dynamics NAV 2. Installing Dynamics NAV 3. Integrating Dynamics NAV with the Microsoft Platform 4. Securing Dynamics NAV Applications 5. Backing up and Restoring a Dynamics NAV Database 6. Performance Tuning 7. Setting up Periodic Activities, Stylesheets, and Rapid Implementation Methodology 8. Updating Objects and Virtualization with Dynamics NAV 9. Business Intelligence

Managing stylesheets in Dynamics NAV


Sending documents to MS Word had always been a challenge in NAV, until the new "export to Excel" and "export to Word" functionality was introduced in NAV version 5 and carried over to version 2009. Automatic "Send to Excel" and "Send to Word" capability uses stylesheets to format the output from almost any page in Dynamics NAV. Just click a button, and the information will be displayed on a Word document or an Excel spreadsheet. The output is nicely formatted using the XML stylesheets, which can be structured into proper rows and columns with row headers, descriptions, field captions, logos, other pictures, and many more.

The initial version of this functionality required XML designing in order to preformat stylesheets, which required programming knowledge. However, with the new stylesheet tool, users can design new or edit existing stylesheet formats with no programming knowledge.

In this chapter, we will learn the use of the stylesheet tool to create...

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