You can use reports to print or display information from a database. You can use a report to structure and summarize information and to print documents, such as invoices. For example, you can create a report that lists all customers and all orders that have been added by each customer. You can also create a report that is automatically filled with the relevant information for an invoice.

You can also use reports to process data without printing or displaying content. For example, you can use a report to automate updating all prices in an item list. It can be easier to create a report to process data instead of a codeunit to do the same processing because you can use:

• Request page functionality to select options and filters for data items, which are available in a report but are difficult to add to a codeunit.
  
• Report data items instead of writing code to open tables and retrieve records.
  
• Data modeling, which is available when you design reports.
  

The following sections describe the documentation that is available for reporting in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2.

RDLC Reports

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