Microsoft
Dynamics NAV 2016 – Business Chart
👋 Hi all,
Today i came across with different type of requirement, Sometime you might be show the inventory Location wise in the form of chart.
In this article, I’m going to discuss about Business Charts in detail and
how you can create them.
Building Business Charts is one of the ways
you can take advantage of the powerful charting capabilities in Dynamics NAV.
WHAT
ARE BUSINESS CHARTS?
Business charts are based on Business Chart
control add-in which is provided by the
Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.BusinessChart.dll assembly.
As compared to other chart types, Business
charts provide advanced functionalities such as:
·
Displaying complex data that is
calculated on a page.
·
Allowing end users to filter data
and drill down to the details from the chart
·
Allowing dynamic filtering of data
·
Being supported on Dynamics NAV
Web client.
BUILDING
BUSINESS CHARTS FOR ITEM LIST.
At the end of this blog, you will know how to
build a simple Business chart which can be used as a factbox in the Item list page showing location wise
Inventory.
This chart updates automatically when you move
to any particular line on the item list page [See bellow screenshot].
Location
wise Inventory Business Chart:
We need to mainly use Business Chart Buffer
table (485) to build the business charts. This table holds chart related values
and also has multiple functions pre-defined which can be used to build our
chart on a page object.
Following
objects are required to build Location wise Inventory Business Chart:
·
A Query to calculate Location wise
remaining quantity for all the items
·
A Codeunit to use the above query
result and prepare Business Chart Buffer table.
·
A Page to display the chart.
To
achieve this follow the steps:
1. Design a new Query object
which shows Location wise remaining quantity for all the items. We will be
using the query result as chart data.
a)
Open Dynamics NAV development
environment and click on Query and next click on New to design a new query
b)
Specify the query DataItem and
columns as shown below:
c)
Save the
query. (ex: ID-50027 and Name-Item Qty. By Location)
d)
Run the
query (50027) to see location wise total quantity of items.
2. Design a new CodeUnit to
populate the Business chart buffer table with the above query result.
a)
In the Dynamics NAV development
environment, click on Codeunit and next click on New to design a new Codeunit.
b)
In the codeunit designer, click on
View–> Globals–> Functions tab to create a new function in the Codeunit.
Enter the function name as GenerateInventoryByLoc and click on Locals button to enter parameters and variables for the
function as shown in the below image:
c)
Now in the Codeunit designer you
see an new function trigger called GenerateInventoryByLoc. Enter the code as shown in the below image. The in-line comments
within the Codeunit explains more about each line of code:
Save the Codunit (ex: ID-50027 and Name- Items Qty. By Loc. - Chart Mgt
3.
Create a ”Items Qty. By Location Chart” page of CardPart type for
displaying the Business Chart.
To create a CardPart page follow thr bellow steps:
Ø Open the Object Designer from Development Enviornment -> Click on
Page Type -> Click New.
Ø Select on Create blank page and
then Click on OK.
Ø Goto Page Properies and give SourceTable
as 27 i.e. Item, PageType as CardPart, ID as per your range, in our demo i used 50027, Name Items Qty. By Location
Chart. -> Save the Page.
Ø Now Design your page -> In our case -> Choose 1st Row as a
Type as Container, SubType as ContentArea, and Name as Container. In 2nd row
Type as Field,
Name as BusinessChart -> Goto properties
of this line and give the value for ControlAddIn. [Click on Lookup button
in ControlAddIn Value and then select Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.BusinessChart]
Ø Now Save the Page and close this designer.
Ø See the bellow screenshot of Items
Qty. By Location Chart.
4.
Now design the Item List page i.e
31, and add a new factbox that we created earlier Items Qty. By Location Chart.
To achieve this we have to do
some changes in Item List, follow the bellow procedures.
Ø Design the Item List Page from Object designer.
Ø In FactBoxAre add a new line for Items
Qty. By Location Chart, and Map it.
Ø See the bellow screenshot for creating new factbox for Items Qty. By Location Chart.
Note: How you can Open Related page on Click
of ”Business Chart” i’ll show you on next article, Thank You...
Credit goes to Subhidha
