Make custom report that uses the record you're currently viewing

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Good afternoon, I'm learning Business Central development for our company so we can customize it for our needs. I'm working on setting up a custom report that you can generate that uses the data on the record you're currently viewing (so if you're looking at a Production Order, the report's dataset is of that record). The only information I've found online doesn't specify how to have the dataset use the record that's currently open. When you run the report, no matter what you have open, it just uses the first record from the table. Obviously that's not very useful.

Below is the code I'm working with right now.

pageextension 50003 MakeCocOnOpen extends "Released Production Order"
{
    trigger OnOpenPage();
    begin
        report.Run(Report::CertificateOfConformance);
    end;
}

report 50003 CertificateOfConformance
{
    DefaultLayout = RDLC;
    RDLCLayout = 'MyRDLReport.rdl';
    
    dataset
    {
        dataitem("Production Order"; "Production Order")
        {
            column(Description; Description){}
            column(No_; "No."){}
            column(Source_No_; "Source No."){}
        }
    }
}

If anyone has any advice for how to do that or could point me to some resources, that would be awesome. Thank you!

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matthias_rabus 160 on at

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Awesome, you are diving into AL development :-)

You have to pass the record when calling the report like that:

Report.Run(Report::CertificateOfConformance, false, false, Rec);

Rec contains the current Record and is available in pages and page extensions.

Docs:

docs.microsoft.com/.../report-run-method

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YUN ZHU 101,995 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi, just a example. Print selected sales order.

pageextension 50135 MyExtension extends "Sales Order List" { actions { addafter("Print Confirmation") { action(NewPrint) { Caption = 'New Print'; Promoted = true; PromotedCategory = Process; trigger OnAction() var SalesHeader: Record "Sales Header"; begin SalesHeader.Reset(); CurrPage.SetSelectionFilter(SalesHeader); if SalesHeader.FindFirst() then Report.Run(Report::"Standard Sales - Order Conf.", true, true, SalesHeader); end; } } } }

Hope this also helps.

Thanks.
ZHU

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matthewjd24 89 on at

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Thank you both for your help. How can I use the passed record in the report? The only thing I can find on this is this article which does not have any mention.

It's definitely more difficult to self-teach AL than it has been for my past projects like C#. Do you have any advice for good resources to learn? Thank you.

P.S. Yun Zhu I have visited your Dynamics 365 Lab blog a number of times, it's been really helpful.

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Suresh Kulla 50,280 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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To access the record you use the trigger OnAfterGetRecord in the dataitem, which will give access the record .

report 50003 CertificateOfConformance

{

DefaultLayout = RDLC;

RDLCLayout = 'MyRDLReport.rdl';

dataset

{

dataitem("Production Order"; "Production Order")

{

column(Description; Description){}

column(No_; "No."){}

column(Source_No_; "Source No."){}

trigger OnAfterGetRecord()

begin

--- Add your condition or logic here -----

end;

}

}

}

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matthewjd24 89 on at

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I am confused about condition or logic I need to add, I just want the data from the record to be into the Description, No., Source No. columns for the report. Sorry I am very new to this.

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matthias_rabus 160 on at

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You don't need to add any additional logic.

If the first dataitem of your report matches the type of the record you pass in (both belong to the table "Production Order") then BC will use the values of the record in your report.

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matthewjd24 89 on at

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Thank you this makes sense now and it is working. I appreciate the help.

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