Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Reporting

Everything you need to know to work with reports in Dynamics CRM 2011

Key Features

• Create reports with SQL Reporting Services for CRM
• Empower your reports with the different Report Wizards and dashboards
• Troubleshoot and optimize your reports for better performance

Book Description

What you will learn

• Understand the different report types we can create in Microsoft Dynamics CRM
• Learn basic database concepts like ERD and SQL and Fetch XML languages to create queries on our reports
• Create basic reports with the wizard and Visual Studio
• Build advanced reports with the SQL Report Builder
• Present reports in charts, dashboards and forms
• Integrate reports on CRM entity forms and extending the form s control capabilities
• Incorporate reports in CRM dashboards and understand chart basics to display important information
• Bind CRM data by using early or late binding and SQL reporting services report execution
• Follow the best practices and troubleshooting of different authentication issues

Who this book is for

This book is great for users and developers new to the Dynamics CRM Reports and SQL Server Reporting services, and who are looking to get a good grounding in how to use the reporting capabilities of Dynamics CRM 2011. It's assumed that you will have some experience in HTML and JavaScript already to build the advanced reports, but no previous programming experience is required to build and learn how to create some basic to intermediate reports, which will be used during the exercises within this book.