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Hi Team,

I'm trying for this report 1316 and 211 but it is not showing me the report on the global search. when I'm on customer list search for the report 211 it shows but when I'm outside that it does not show this up. is there any way i can pull out this report on global search or search from anywhere in the system.

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Mansi Soni 10,224 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hello @Honey98,

In Business Central, reports like 1316 and 211 may not appear in global search because they are context-sensitive reports, meaning they are only available when opened from specific pages (e.g., Customer List) where required filters/parameters are automatically applied.

There is no standard way to make these reports globally searchable unless you create a page action, add them to a Role Center, or develop a small extension to expose them as standalone reports. As a workaround, you can continue accessing them from the relevant page (like Customer List), or ask your developer to make them available globally.

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Saif Ali Sabri 2,791 Moderator on at

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Mansi is correct. In Business Central, Report 211 and Report 1316 are typically exposed through specific pages and actions, so they may not be indexed for Tell Me (global search). That's why you can find and run them from the Customer List page but not from anywhere in the application.
Options to make them easier to access:

Add the report as an action on a page or Role Center.

Create a simple page extension or customization to expose the report directly.

Continue launching the report from the page where it is available by default.

There is no standard setting that automatically makes all context-dependent reports appear in global search.

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Create a simple page extension or customization to expose the report directly:
If you want the report to be available without navigating to the Customer List page, you can add it as an action on a Role Center or another frequently used page through a page extension.
Example (AL) for exposing Report 211 from the Business Manager Role Center:

pageextension 50100 BusinessManagerRCExt extends "Business Manager Role Center"
{
actions
{
addlast(Sections)
{
action(RunReport211)
{
ApplicationArea = All;
Caption = 'Customer Report 211';
Image = Report;

trigger OnAction()
begin
Report.Run(211, true, true);
end;
}
}
}
}

For Report 1316, replace 211 with 1316.
Alternatively, you can add the action to another page that users access frequently. After publishing the extension, users can launch the report directly from that page, eliminating the need to navigate to the Customer List first.
Keep in mind that if the report expects customer-related filters or a specific record context, additional code may be needed to pass those filters when the report is run.

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YUN ZHU 102,389 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi, In addition to customization, you can run these reports from the Report Layouts page.

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Hello,
The catch: UsageCategory is an object-level property on the report itself, and you can't set it via a reportextension. Reportextensions only let you extend the dataset, request page, rendering, and add triggers/labels — not object properties like UsageCategory or ApplicationArea. And since 211 and 1316 are Microsoft objects (and you're almost certainly on SaaS), you can't edit them directly either.

So you have two practical routes.

Route 1 — Wrapper report (the only thing that puts it in global Tell Me). Create your own thin report object that is searchable and simply launches the standard one:

report 50100 "Standard Statement (Search)"
{
Caption = 'Standard Statement';
UsageCategory = ReportsAndAnalysis;
ApplicationArea = All;
ProcessingOnly = true;

trigger OnPreReport()
begin
Report.Run(Report::"Standard Statement"); // ID 1316
end;
}
Now "Standard Statement" is findable from anywhere in Tell Me; selecting it fires the real report's request page. Do the same for 211. Use AdditionalSearchTerms if you want alternative keywords. (Confirm the exact object names against your symbols — Report:: needs the real name, not the number.)

Route 2 — Role Center navigation (reachable everywhere, no wrapper). Add the reports under the Reporting/navigation area of your Role Center via a pageextension. For reports, you can add them under the Reporting area of the role center's navigation menu. This makes them one click away from every page and puts them in the Role Explorer, though it doesn't technically add them to the Tell Me text search the way Route 1 does. Microsoft Learn
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Shrey Chauhan

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OussamaSabbouh 18,239 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hello,

Most probably this is because the report is context/action-based, so it appears from the Customer List action/search context but not from global Tell Me search. In Business Central, a report only appears in global search if it is made searchable using properties like UsageCategory and ApplicationArea; if it is not exposed that way by Microsoft, you cannot force the standard report to appear globally by setup only. Workaround: run it from the Customer/List page actions, use Report Selection / Scheduled Statements where applicable, bookmark the page/action if available, or ask your partner/developer to create a small wrapper/custom report/page action that calls report 1316/211 and is searchable.

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Oussama Sabbouh

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Grigorios Mavrogeorgis 2,721 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi,

this is normal, report 211 and 1316 are sales document reports, they live under the customer or the document so they only surface in Tell Me when you are in that context. The global search filters out a lot of objects that are not tied to a role or a page in your current spot, so from the home page they just won't appear

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Easiest fix, make them reachable on their own. You can add the report to a Report Inspection or to the role centre actions, but cleaner is to use the Profile and the page customization, or just bookmark the report once you open it so it sits on your navigation menu. Other way is search by the exact report name not the number, sometimes the number search is the thing failing, the name hits more reliably.
If you want it truly from anywhere, an admin can add it through Designer or a small page action so it is exposed system wide, out of the box BC keeps these scoped on purpose. Are you on cloud or on-prem, and is it the report ID you type in Tell Me or the name? And which role centre are these users on, that affects what Tell Me will show.

Glad to help - follow up if anything is unclear.
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Regards,
Grigorios Mavrogeorgis
Business Central Consultant & AL Developer
Work: Gmsoft Limited
Blog: insidebusinesscentral
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gregorymavrogeorgis

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Gerardo Rentería Ga... 27,507 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi, good day
I hope this can help you, and give you some hints.

Report discoverability - Business Central | Microsoft Learn

Solved: Custom Report Not Available in Search

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Gerardo

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