Over 90 recipes to help you resolve your new SSRS Reporting woes in Dynamics AX 2012 R3
About This Book
- Easy and effortless deployment of SSRS reports
- One stop solution for developers to customize existing SSRS reports in Dynamics AX R3
- Step-by-step tutorial with solutions to writing unit classes for reports
Who This Book Is For
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Reporting Cookbook is recommended for Dynamics AX developers and .NET-based SSRS developers looking to familiarize themselves with the new AX reporting framework.
What You Will Learn
- Create and deploy reports in AX 2012 R3
- Understand the SSRS report programming flow
- Modify the reporting framework
- Create RDP-based reports
- Design tabular matrices and chart-based reports
- Debug reports, the reporting framework, and business logic
- Migrate reports from the legacy reporting framework
- Get to grips with unit testing and troubleshooting SSRS reports
In Detail
Dynamics AX 2012 is a modern ERP solution from Microsoft that is targeted at mid- and high-level organizations. Reports play a very central role in an ERP system, being accessible to customers, vendors, top management, and the shop floor. Every ERP implementation includes reporting changes as companies try to refit the reports to their processes.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Reporting Cookbook focuses mainly on the reporting aspects of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. As a Dynamics AX developer, reporting skills are a must-have and this book intends to make report development easier and simpler.
You will gain an understanding of all the various types of report formats such as charts, matrices, tabular in precision, and auto design. This book also offers strategies for new reports as well as for migrating your reports from the old reporting framework and development.
Deepak Agarwal
Deepak Agarwal(Microsoft MVP) is a Microsoft Certified Professional and has been working professionally on Dynamics AX since 2011. He has worked with different versions of Axapta, such as AX 2009, AX 2012, R2, and R3. He has had a wide range of development, consulting, and leading roles, while always maintaining a significant role as a business application developer. Though his strengths are rooted in X++ development, he is a highly regarded developer and has knowledge of technical aspects of Dynamics AX development and customization. He has also worked on base product development with the Microsoft team. He was awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Dynamics AX in 2013 and 2014 by Microsoft. He has also contributed to the following books: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Reporting Cookbook Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Programming Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager Deepak shares his experience with Dynamics AX on his blog at http://theaxapta.blogspot.in/.
Chhavi Aggarwal
Chhavi Aggarwal started working on Dynamics AX in 2012. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional and has worked on both the 2009 and 2012 versions of Dynamics AX. She is an expert in SSRS reports and has also done a lot of customization and development in Dynamics AX R2/R3 through X++. She has a very deep knowledge of the technical aspects related to Dynamics AX R2/R3, as well as sound technical and logical skills in customization and development. She has also worked with the Microsoft team for standard base development.
Kamalakannan Elangovan
Kamalakannan Elangovan has over 8 years of development experience in Dynamics AX. He shares a passion for product development and has pioneered multiple ISV solutions on Dynamics AX. In the past, he has worked with Innovites to create the first multidimensional ISV solution for cable industries called "InnoVites for cable". Building the solution from scratch, he gained great insights into building, selling, and promoting a product among customers and partners in the Microsoft Ecosystem. You can find out more about him at http://about.me/casperkamal. Kamal is enthusiastic about sharing his learnings with the community, which led him to create one of the first few blogs for AX in 2006. It is currently available at http://kamalblogs.wordpress.com. He is active on Twitter and is very well known in the community by his pseudonym, "Casperkamal".
