- [Instructor] The Dynamics GP Report Writer
is still with us, although now there's a lot more options
for reportings, such as Power BI,
SSRS, that's Sequel Server Reporting Services,
Excel-based Reports, and so many other choices,
but the original Report Writer
for what was originally called Great Plains
is still part of the system
and we do often need to understand how that works.
Let's look at a built-in report
that was built with Report Writer.
On the Customer card, you'll notice
that there's a "Print" button,
so you can print out a little report
for the customer that you navigated to.
So, I printed out a report here for this customer.
Now, say that there was something about this report
that you really wanted to change.
It's almost exactly what you want,
but it has some slight tweaks.
I wouldn't recommend using Report Writer
for building reports from scratch,
but I would recommend modifying these reports.
The easiest way to launch the Report Writer
is to run the report that you're looking to change
and then click the "Modify" button.
That's going to take you out of Dynamics GP
into the Report Writer.
To get back to GP, you would click File,
Microsoft Dynamics GP,
and it'll take you back into the application.
So, now we're in a separate application, this Report Writer,
and we're navigated to that particular report
that we were just looking at as a screen preview.
Well, we can remove fields.
I could click on this, I could delete it.
It would probably be better if I didn't want to see it
to just make it invisible,
hide when empty or make it invisible,
and that way, it's still there.
If I wanted to turn it back on, I can.
I have a toolbox here
where I can add more labels of any kind
and I can say that this report was customized.
I can put in even pictures, images,
your company logo, or whatnot.
So, I've made some changes,
I now go back to Microsoft Dynamics GP,
I save my changes, and when I run that same report,
it's not going to show me those changes yet.
I will have to make sure that I've gone
into the Security and made sure that
under Alternate Modified Forms and Reports
that the report has been specified
that it's something that's modified
that we should use, okay?
This was a report in the Sales series,
so we can see there it has been modified.
It's now showing up and I have to specify
that we want to use the modified version of the report.
And that way, when that report is run,
it will look in the Reports Dictionary
and pull the layout that I just modified
using the Dynamics GP Report Writer.