Pros and cons on the new PDF Embedded feature

Dear Dynamics 365 Lovers,

In this blog I have articulated the pros and cons for the new SSRS/on-screen report embedded PDF Preview option in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (available in 2020 release wave 1 plan)based on my experience.

OLD DAYS ARE GONE!!

Microsoft has developed a nice feature "Report PDF viewer", which has changed and enhanced the report view of all on screen SSRS report from HTML to PDF view.

To use this we need to enable the feature "Report PDF viewer" from feature management.

PROS

Below is the example from MS doc, how this look like and it's pros I have noticed.

• This offers consistency between the screen presentation and the printed output.
• In addition, report viewing times are drastically reduced when compared to the legacy experience.
• The Preview option is available on all supported devices and does not require any additional third-party software.
• Documents can be easily downloaded and navigated by using the built-in viewer toolbar options.

And this feature has some additional linked feature, those will give you the additional privileges to have, I have added the short brief for the same.

Enable Export on Report PDF viewer- It gives us the possibility to export the report in various format like it used to in SSRS html viewer 

Enable Network Printing on Report PDF viewer- This feature enables network printing function on Report PDF viewer control.

Enable Refresh on Report PDF viewer- This feature gives the privilege to refresh the page in real time, means we don't need to generate the report again and gets refreshed faster, whenever clicked.

CONS

• This function doesn't have the privilege to drill through link like it used to have in SSRS html viewer, which means if this is enabled, user wont be able to click the transaction and check from there.

• This feature has caused one BUG in ITALIAN region, where the ITALIAN localized report can not be exported and fixed in later version 

I hope this blog post will give you some insight about the feature and for more information about this feature, kindly feel free to explore from here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/analytics/preview-pdf-documents