Report Scheduling in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015

In the last post about the new features in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015, we talked about document reporting and report layouts. Another new and powerful feature introduced with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 is report scheduling.

 

Benefits of report scheduling in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015

The report scheduling can be accessed by running a report and clicking Print>Schedule on the Request Page. The report run can then be delayed to a certain date and time as shown below. This new feature of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 is running on Job Queue, so has to be pre-configured and NAS has to be set up.Report scheduling in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015: delaying report runReport scheduling in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015: Schedule A Report tableThe generated reports end up in a new page Report Inbox, which can be accessed in the role center.Report scheduling in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015: Report Inbox

 

How to use new methods of report scheduling

 

Diving deeper into this functionality we find a few new standard methods:•        Report.RunRequestPage•        Report.ExecuteThe first one can run the report without actually running it, but only showing the request page and capturing its parameters.The latter can in turn run the report with a provided set of captured parameters. It is passed as a variable in both functions and stored in Xml format.This can be reused in automated report scheduling on your own solution and is also a very nice out-of-the-box feature for slow-running, nightly run reports, which now can be initiated by the end-users also.

What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015? Read more:Document Reporting in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015

 

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