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New Report Design Guidelines 

[This post has been updated for accuracy since the first publication.] For NAV RDLC reports, we have drafted Report Design Guidelines. I see report developers as artists because they start with a blank piece of paper, just like an artist. As artists, only your imagination stops you from what you draw and add to this piece
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Updated: How to log report usage 

In several partners meetings I have heard this requests over and over again. Claus, when we are planning an upgrade of Classic reports to RDLC reports, we do not always know which reports are actually being used at the customer site. It would be great to be able to log which reports are used so
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Transfooter and Transheader functionality in RDLC(SSRS) reports – revisited 

In one of our previous blog post we discussed the possibility to do Transfooter and Transheader functionality in RDLC(SSRS) reports and describes a viable solution for this in RDLC. In this blog post we would like to suggest an alternative, a bit more economical and easier to implement solution for the same problem. For the
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What’s new in R2 for reporting 

With Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 it is time to drill into the new features we have for you in the reporting area. Enhanced connection with Visual Studio when editing layout (RDLC) a. Easy refresh of dataset in Visual Studio In NAV 2009 SP1 you had to close down Visual Studio when you made any
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Visual Studio 2010 and SSRS (RDLC) reports in NAV 2009 

A couple of weeks ago Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 was released. Unfortunately we will not be able to support Visual Studio 2010 in Dynamics NAV 2009 when developing SSRS (RDLC) reports. When you are designing RDLC reports in NAV 2009 you are creating reports in a format known as the “RDL 2005” format. Both Visual