NAV 2013 reports and C/Side introduction NAV 2013 errors

davmac1

I have been going through chapter 8 in the official training material, and there appear to me to be several errors.
1) 8-14 Delete Layout (in NAV 2009 NOT NAV 2013)
2) 8-13 Include Caption - this is not required for the report layout
3) 8-15 design layout - very cumbersome and time consuming - typing in individual names in rows and headers - quick way is to click the tiny box in the top right of each detail box and it lets you select the field name and then also plugs in the caption in the line above. See Bill Baxter's excellent youtube video - design a new NAV 2013 report in 120 seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OLbiS7oW1I
4) Interactive sorting - I could not find anything similar to the documentation. I right clicked on the headings, selected the text box properties, then clicked on the interactive sorting, then checked interactive sorting on this text box, selected detail rows and the data field below (for more complex sorts, there are additional grouping options).

I have not tried everything in the training chapter, so there may or may not be more errors or ambiguities.

Most of the report design work is going to be done in Visual Studio, the importance of the C/AL code is getting the correct data to the Visual Studio designer in a usable form and then getting the design specs back to NAV in a usable form. (You can successfully save a report, but still get NAV compile errors.)

I hope we will get an update to the training manual with a few corrections and a few more examples.
In the meantime, we still have msdn, blogs, youtube, and of course Mibuso (my favorite) and DynamicsUser.net

I just looked at the Reports training manual - interactive sorting is explained properly.
I still have to go through the entire reports manual, but from my initial look at it, I think it would be better to skip chapter 8 in the C/AL introduction and start with the Reports manual.
If you have never done reports in NAV 2013, start with Bill Baxter's youtube video referenced above, then dive into the Reports training Manual - 6 chapters - it covers a lot of ground.

clausl

Report Training material was done after I left the Building, so of course there are errors

No, jokes a side, if you have any specific questions to reports in NAV 2013 you are always welcome to send me a pm.
Would be nice to know what you would like to see examples of.

Concerning your second point, "IncludeCaption" is not required. I recommend that you use this when possible. When IncludeCaption is used, your caption will become a parameter and will reduce the dataset, and thereby making the report faster.

/Claus Lundstrøm