Report Wizard
The Report Wizard enables users to build basic reports without development knowledge by providing an easy-to-use interface for doing so. With Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, reports are generated using native Fetch-based queries through the data source (called MSCRM_FetchDataSource) found in the Report Manager and available to support Fetch queries.
In addition, the final reports are actually Microsoft SSRS reports, or .rdl files, which you can further manipulate using a more advanced editing tool such as Visual Studio, provided you have Report Authoring Extensions installed.
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As with earlier versions, reports built with the Report Wizard can be edited using Visual Studio. This is usually done to increase performance, layout, ...
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