Cool Form and Report Designs

redhotmustang

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As you know Navision has limited design capabilities, but we can always use our imagination and create beauty.

I'm creating this topic to challenge everyone to post his/her design creativity: cool forms and reports.

Hopefully, this topic could work has an inspirational design model.
Post your form and report pics here!

Who will dare to face this challenge?

Savatage

I'll play - here is my version or the AR Aging Report.
I think the seperation of each customer should be clearer so using boxes, lines and some field arranging this is what I came up with.
http://savatage99.googlepages.com/MyVer ... Report.pdf

I don't know if the pic does it justice but it is very easy to use.

Also, Since we use crystal reports to - Combining the location for all the reports was really important. by making the standard nav reports a tab form i was able on the 2nd tab to create a from to hold all outside reports.
http://savatage99.googlepages.com/Repor ... eplace.pdf

redhotmustang

Nice, Savatage! Thanks.

How about colors, and fontfaces? Does everybody here stick with the default ones?

Savatage

I try too keep it as basicas possible but once in a while someone asks for something like this (see Below)
It works for them so who am I to complain.as long as they get their work done quickly & correctly.
http://savatage99.googlepages.com/TightForm.JPG

PS Kudos to Kriki for helping me with the US Mail Calculations based on zipcode & weights!!!
http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17866

garak

i've also a nice form (it was a solution in an old 2.00 Database).
regrettably i've no server to upload

redhotmustang

You can use free image servers like ImageHack.us or ImageVenue. Those sites don't require member registration.

Xypher

"Back to Stock - SADFACES"

davmac1

The sad thing is you beautiful form with lose its colors in the NAV2009 3 tier client version. Maybe the next version will support colrs in forms.
However your reports can be even more beautiful with color and charts.

(One step forward, one step back.)

Savatage

Xypher wrote:

"Back to Stock - SADFACES"

That started back 20 years ago. If you saw a paper invoice on your desk with a huge sadface drawn on it - you knew the order came back from the customer and it needed to go back to stock. Eventually the term SADFACE took on that meaning and we still use it today!

garak

so, here an Job Card in Financials 2.00 (created in 1999 updated for Euro conversion) with some diagrams

and here a Report with the same diagramm in color and it is printed in color :!: and this diagram is not created with ocx or some automations. It's only C/AL Code

redhotmustang

Don't you ever use differente font faces? Which ones do you prefer?

(I'm coming from web development and web design, I believe I'm seeing things much from this perspective where design does matter ) ](*,)

DenSter

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awarn

redhotmustang,

I know this sounds seuper-seeky, bu I always use the standard font, with the point of trying to always develop to the navision standard. Basic rule is that by looking visually, a user should not be able to tell which forms . reports are navision standard and which ones you create.

Of course customers will want crazy forms with colors etc..., but for everyday development you should try to stay to the standard. sort of like within code - I think a Customer variable should be called Customer, not gvarrecCustomer or rCust or lvarCust or whatever, but every solution center is different in what they allow / encourage.

-a

Xypher

I think this form I made recently is pretty neat. (But it's still being worked on so not finished picture.)

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z162 ... olform.jpg

--edit--

I thought this form looked pretty neat too...

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z162 ... lform2.jpg

redhotmustang

awarn: I know that, but some costumers like to hand out more beautiful reports to their costumers. We have to creative.

Regards.

DenSter

Most of the time though it's not what the report looks like that matters, but the content of the report. Once the customer realizes how much work it is and how much money it therefore costs to 'make it look good' they usually opt for the simple version.

redhotmustang

That is true.

The biggest lesson I learned with NAV is that information is the most important thing, whereas in web development design and info are both important.