From the NAV Blogs: Report Design Training; Speed Up Inventory Valuation Reports; Using Web Services for Running Scheduled Tasks; Demo Showcase Suite

Training Resources for Report Design: Earlier this month, NAV Reporting posted the release of training material for designing reports in NAV 2009. Claus Lundstrøm, Program Manager for MS Dynamics NAV, writes: "This training will teach the learners about the concepts of Report Design in NAV 2009 using VS Report Designer along with the limitations and workarounds in Report Design. It covers the new options with practical examples on creating reports in report design, creating and defining data set within NAV 2009 to be used in Visual Studio. In addition, it covers how to implement Dynamics features like interactive sorting, conditional formatting, visualizing data using graphs, document maps, creating expressions. Furthermore the training contains information on best practices and recommendations for creating interactive dashboard reports containing KPI's."

Click here to access the training material at CustomerSource.

Run Faster! A Solution for Bigger (and Slower) Inventory Valuation Reports: Rashed Amini of the ara3n weblog provides the SQL statement for speeding up Inventory Valuation in Dynamics NAV: "One of the issues customers run into as their database gets bigger and bigger is that their reports take longer and longer to run. One of those reports is the Inventory Valuation report. I've always suggested customers to look at SQL reporting services to write these reports. Inventory valuation report is a little complex, mainly because it can be run as ...