NAV2015 Report Layout selection

Roelof

Is there an option in Report Layout Selection (NAV2015) to have a different report layout for different users?
It looks like there is only one default layout per report for all users.
Any ideas?

lvanvugt

Well, in a way there is, since we now have (with NAV 2015) the Document Reporting feature that allows you to store per company a different layout.
If with "user" you mean a login, you might but than you have to modify the Document Reporting feature.
Read more here: http://aka.ms/NAVGetReady

Roelof

Yes, I was referring to 'Document Reporting feature that allows you to store per company a different layout'. This can be defined in the 'Report Layout Selection'. But you still need to set one report as a default, even if you have multiple different layouts for that report.
Is there a way for a default report to be different for different users. So, if I log in as 'John' I'm getting a different layout for the same Report then when I log in as 'Peter'.

lvanvugt

Roelof wrote:

Is there a way for a default report to be different for different users. So, if I log in as 'John' I'm getting a different layout for the same Report then when I log in as 'Peter'.

Hi Roelof, as said: No, you have to develop that. In some ways more people are wondering about this. Would be a perfect scenario to ask MS about on http://connect.microsoft.com.

Roelof

Bedankt, Ivan.

BardurKnudsen

Thanks for the input. When we developed this feature, we discussed whether it made sense to store the selection per user, and we would like to understand in which scenarios it makes sense that user A prints a different layout than user B. We assumed that the selection would differ from report to report, so e.g. sales invoices might depend on the customer (e.g. maybe government customers should have a different layout than private customers), Account Schedules layout might depend on the actual account schedule, etc., so it was difficult to build in a generic selection method that accommodated every scenario.

lvanvugt

Roelof wrote:

Bedankt, Ivan.

=D>
Just call me "Luc". 8)

Roelof

Hi Bardur,

It might not happen too often. It was more a generic question. But there might be cases of having different report layouts for users in different departments since each department might have different standards.

clausl

You could easily create a RDLC report which behave different from user to user.

Just check on the User!UserID. i.e. on Visibility Tablix 1 and Tablix 2:

Tablix 1, Visibility:
=iif(User!UserID = "CLAUSL", FALSE, TRUE) or just User!UserID <> "CLAUSL"

Tablix 2, Visibility:
=iif(User!UserID <> "CLAUSL", FALSE, TRUE) or just User!UserID = "CLAUSL"

Then when I run this report I will see a complete different report from all others running this report. If Tablix 1 is different from Tablix 2 of course :-)

/Claus Lundstrøm