Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Fifth Edition

Interactive sorting

Among the useful interactive reporting features are interactive sorting and data expand/collapse. Two standard reports that are examples of the interactive sort feature are the Customer - Top 10 List (Report 111) and the Customer - Summary Aging (Report 105). We'll take a look at Report 111 to see how NAV does it.

Since we'll open the Report in the Designer, the possibility exists that, through an unlucky combination of keystrokes, we could accidentally change this production report; the first thing we want to do is make a copy for our inspection. Open Report 111 in the C/Side Report Designer, then click on Save As to Report object 50111 with a different name, such as Customer - Top 10 ListTest. Once that is done, we can ...