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Viewing reminders as text or Cue You can specify to view predefined reminders and customized reminders as text or as Cues in the home page. A Cue is an icon that increases or decreases in height to indicate the number of records in a particular reminder category.

Reminder as text Reminder as a Cue

 

Viewing Reporting Services Metrics

You can use Microsoft® SQL Server® Reporting Services 2008 to display graphical representations of Microsoft Dynamics GP data in the metrics area of your home page. Reporting Services metrics appear in the SQL Reporting Services Report list.

Viewing Multiple Metrics

Multiple metrics can be displayed in your home page. You also can create your own metrics to display in your home page.

Viewing Additional Information

If you want to analyze data in a Reporting Services 2008 metric displayed in your home page, you can click a data point in the metric to open a detailed report for additional information. If you want to view additional data in the detailed report, you can click certain data fields to open the maintenance or inquiry window related to that data field.

Reporting

Report lists Report lists contain a list of reports that are available for you to use. Each series available in the navigation pane has the following report lists.

Report List Reports that appear in the list
Microsoft Dynamics GP Reports Report Writer reports for the series.
Excel Reports Microsoft Excel ® reports and Office Data Connections for the series.

This report list appears if you specified the location of your Excel reports using the Reporting Tools Setup window.
Reporting Services Reports SQL Server Reporting Services reports for the series.

This report list appears if you specified the location of your Reporting Services reports using the Reporting Tools Setup window.
SmartList Favorites All SmartList favorites for the series.
Other Reports Reports not included in the other report lists, such as Microsoft Word documents and FRx reports for the series.

This report list appears if you specified the location of your reports using the Reporting Tools Setup window.
Report List All reports for the series and the reports that you’ve added to your My Reports list.

Report Destinations

In the Report Destination window’s Report Type list, you can select Standard to use the Report Writer engine to generate the report. If the report has a Word template associated with it, you can select Template to use Word as the layout engine. See Word templates for more information. The following table displays the additional file format options you can use when printing to a file.

File Format Description
Text Text with no formatting. Use this option only if the application you’ll use to read the report can’t read any other format.
HTML A format that can be views in a web browser.
XML Data A text file that contains an XML representation of the report layout and all the report data. Choose this format if you want to process the report using an external application.
Adobe PDF This format is available if you have the PDFWriter printer driver installed (included with Acrobat 5 and earlier), or Acrobat Distiller from Acrobat 6 or later. PDF (Portable Document Format) files can be read using Adobe Reader software available from Adobe.
Word Document The Microsoft Office Open XML (.docx) file format used by Word 2007 or later. You can select this format if you select Template as the report type.