Report Writing - Tutorial, Books, etc

rzirpolo

I have been searching in vain on the net and also through the forums on here and cannot find anything in regards to tutorials or documentation in for report writing in Navision. I have managed to get a copy of the C/AL Programming Guide but this doesn't help a great deal.

My background is SQL and I have written numerous reports in Crystal so I like to think I have a good understanding of relational databases, table structures and writing general code but I am really struggling with writing these reports.

Is there nothing available as a guide or tutorial ? It is becoming very frustrating ](*,)

willy

Hi! Take a look at the Application Designer's Guide. Here you will find how reports are designed and how to make them.

The application designer's guide is on the product cd..

Waldo

I think the best manual is indeed the Programming Guide ("Development I" is the most recent version of it).

What you must understand is that NAV reporting is NOTHING like building Crystal Reports. It is just a sequential process, where you sequentionally read your data (structured/linked in data items) and put on a piece of paper (or just run code when implementing a "processing only" report).

It is hard to explain this in a post... #-o

David_Cox

The Wizard is basic, best way to learn is hands on play, copy a few reports to a new numbers and play about with them, look at the structure, filters and code.

Some are quite involved others basic, so you can find reports just above your understanding level, then progress!

If your unsure of why something is done in a certain way, then just ask here, there is often a good reason!

Alex_Chow

rzirpolo wrote:

I have been searching in vain on the net and also through the forums on here and cannot find anything in regards to tutorials or documentation in for report writing in Navision. I have managed to get a copy of the C/AL Programming Guide but this doesn't help a great deal.

My background is SQL and I have written numerous reports in Crystal so I like to think I have a good understanding of relational databases, table structures and writing general code but I am really struggling with writing these reports.

Is there nothing available as a guide or tutorial ? It is becoming very frustrating ](*,)

You can't find it on the web is because it's available on the Navision installation CD.

Like willy said, look through the Application Designer's guide on the installation CD, this should be a sufficient "beginner's guide" to teach you the basics.

Waldo

May be this link can help you:
http://www.mprise.nl/Media/download/36732/Development%20NA%2040-222.pdf

(copied from another post. Thank you "sultan_sue" )