Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Fifth Edition
by Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker
Processing-Only reports
One of the report properties we reviewed earlier was ProcessingOnly. If that property is set to Yes, then the report object will not output a dataset for displaying or printing, but will simply do the processing of the data we program it to do. The beauty of this capability is that we can use the built-in processing loop of the NAV report object along with its sorting and filtering capabilities to create a variety of data updating routines with a minimum of programming. Use of report objects also gives us access to the Request Page to allow user input and guidance for the run. We could create the same functionality using code unit objects and programming all of the loops, filtering, user-interface Request Page, and ...
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