Microsoft ® Business Solutions–Navision ® 4.0 Development II – C/SIDE Solution Development Day 4

Managing Reporting

3 of 32 Managing Reporting Properties Triggers Properties Controls Properties Triggers Properties Triggers Controls Triggers Data Items Global Var. Request Form Sections Report Object Description

4 of 32 Managing Reporting OnInitReport OnPreReport OnPostReport OnPreDataItem OnAfterGetRecord OnPreSection OnAfterSection OnPostDataItem Report Event Trigger

5 of 32 Managing Reporting CurrReport.SKIP CurrReport.BREAK CurrReport.QUIT CurrReport.PAGENO CurrReport.CREATETOTALS CurrReport.TOTALSCAUSEDBY CurrReport.NEWPAGE CurrReport.PREVIEW CurrReport.SHOWOUTPUT Report Functions

6 of 32 Managing Reporting ProcessingOnly = YES OnAfterGetRecord Trigger INSERT or MODIFY functions Progress Dialog User Cancel option Processing-Only Reports

Managing Reporting Lab

8 of 32 Conclusion We have created 3 reports, two normal reports and a processing-only report We are now ready to create statistics for the seminar module

Managing Reporting Review Questions

10 of 32 Review Report Triggers Report Functions Processing-Only Reports

FlowFields

12 of 32 FlowFields FlowField SumIndexField FlowFilter

13 of 32 FlowFields FlowField Calculation Item No.Posting DateQuantitySu m Item Ledger Entries Key: Item No., Posting Date SumIndexField: Quantity Item ‘70001’, Inventory DateFilter: ‘ ’ – 100 = – 100 = 75

14 of 32 FlowFields Sum Average Exist Count Min Max Lookup

Managing Statistics Lab

16 of 32 Conclusion We created a statistics form for seminars to sum up the total price in four different time periods We are now ready to add dimensions

Managing Statistics Review Questions

18 of 32 Review Flow Fields Flow Filters

Managing Dimensions

20 of 32 Managing Dimensions Dimension –Generic name for analysis categories Dimension Value –Subset within a Dimension Default Dimension –Dimension + Dimension Value for master files Global Dimensions –Two Dimensions that are defined as fields directly in tables Shortcut Dimension –Eight Dimensions that are used in journals and documents (the first two are always Global Dimensions 1 + 2) Budget Dimension –Four Dimensions that are used in budgets

21 of 32 Managing Dimensions Dimension TableType of Entry 352 Default DimensionMaster file records 355 Ledger Entry DimensionLedger entries 356 Journal Line DimensionJournal lines 357 Document DimensionDocument headers and lines 358 Production Document DimensionProduction orders, lines and components 359 Posted Document DimensionPosted document headers and lines 361 G/L Budget DimensionBudget entries Where are Dimensions Stored?

22 of 32 Managing Dimensions Default Dimensions Posted Document Dimensions Ledger Entry Dimensions Document / Journal Dimensions Dimension Processing

23 of 32 Managing Dimensions Ledger Entry Dimensions Update Analysis Entries Analysis View Entries Analysis View Update Analysis Views

Dynamic Captions

25 of 32 Dynamic Captions CaptionClass Property –Available for fields and controls. –Value automatically transferred to CaptionClassTranslate function in Codeunit 1 –Return value is displayed as caption CaptionClassTranslate Function –CaptionClassTranslate ( ; ). –The parameter is automatically filled by the system and is the Windows Language ID of the active language – contains,

26 of 32 Dynamics Captions Area Type Ref 1 Dim2 VAT 1 Global (No) 2 Shortcut (No) 3 Filter Global 4 Filter Short 5 Code (Code) 6 Filter (Code) 1 Excl. VAT 2 Incl. VAT Global 1 Global 2 Short 1 Short 2 Short 3 Short 4 Short 5 Short 6 Short 7 Short 8 Global 1 Global 2 Short 1 Short 2 Short 3 Short 4 Short 5 Short 6 Short 7 Short 8 Get DIMCode Get DIMCode Structure

27 of 32 Example: CaptionClass = ‘1,2,3’ CaptionClassTranslate(1033,’1,2,3’) CAPTIONAREA = ‘1’ (Dimension) DIMCAPTIONTYPE = ‘2’ (Code Caption of Shortcut Dimension) DIMCAPTIONREF = ‘3’ (Shortcut Dimension 3)  Codeunit 1 – Documentation Trigger contains description for parameters

28 of 32 Example: CaptionClass = ‘1,2,3’ Area Type Ref 1 Dim2 VAT 1 Global (No) 2 Shortcut (No) 3 Filter Global 4 Filter Short 5 Code (Code) 6 Filter (Code) 1 Excl. VAT 2 Incl. VAT Global 1 Global 2 Short 1 Short 2 Short 3 Short 4 Short 5 Short 6 Short 7 Short 8 Global 1 Global 2 Short 1 Short 2 Short 3 Short 4 Short 5 Short 6 Short 7 Short 8 Get DIMCode Get DIMCode Dynamic Captions Short 3

Managing Dimensions Lab

30 of 32 Conclusion We modified our existing seminar module objects so that dimensions can be defined and carried throughout the module Our seminar module has all the features of a standard Microsoft Navision application We can now add some interfaces for additional features

Managing Dimensions Review Questions

32 of 32 Review Dimensions Microsoft Navision Developer’s Toolkit