September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
24h 27m
English
Users can need custom reports for a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons are as follows:
• Special or custom designs such as those with complex layouts that can’t be done with the Report Wizard.
• When you need to have a report with mixed data from data sources other than Microsoft CRM. For example, you might control the inventory counts of your products on a separated system that uses an Oracle database, and you want to have one report that shows the CRM orders with their product details from Oracle and their inventory counts.
You can build custom reports with SSRS or with any other report application, such as Crystal Reports, or even with a custom application built in ASP.NET. The range of applications ...