Report Section Limit

Pavlos

Hi Navision People,

I've just came across a limitation of reports in Navision. Here comes my little story...

One day I was asked to add a column to an existing custom report. Sounds nice and easy. Unfortunately when I did design on the report I discovered that it has about 30 Data Items (maybe more) and more than 100 sections!!! I wanted to meet the guy that created this report! Anyway after few hours I’ve manage to add the new column to the visible sections till I realize that the visible sections was about 97 but the total sections of the report are more than 100. I’ve discovered that there are sections that I was not able to see in the section designer. I realize that when I did preview on report and see a sections that it was not visible in the section designer. I was able to see these sections when I’ve deleted some, visible in the designer, sections. Here comes my question, is there any way to view the rest sections. I know your advice will be to delete the whole report but this is not possible for the time being.

Thanks in advance.

Marije_Brummel

The limit is the reportdesigner has been there for many years. But I have not yet found a workaround.

Maybe you can export to txt file, remove some sections, import, change the sections and then put the sections back in via textfile... :-s

colingbradley

I came across this limit some time ago and then decided on a different way of achieving the same end.

I needed to show a different layout and data dependent on conditions.

I now use variables and just one or two sections.
The number of variables is not limited so no more problem.

Marije_Brummel

It will al be better in nav 5 O:)

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