As from this week you can create a Business Central 2024 Wave 2 Saas Sandbox:
You can have a look here at some expected features:
- New and planned features for Dynamics 365 Business Central, 2024 release wave 2 | Microsoft Learn
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 – Release Plans
This one in particular could be a potential game changer for report development:
Use improved features for report documents:
- Developers and power users can use more of the features that Word provides for document layouts. These improvements reduce time spent on designing layouts for documents and let more power users work with document layouts.
Feature Details
You use report documents in Business Central when you need to send a document such as a quote, order, or invoice to your customers or suppliers.
The following improvements are available for the Word layout feature:
- You can use sections in Word layouts even when you use the WordMergeDataItem property. This unlocks the ability to change layout properties, such as margins, orientation (portrait or landscape), or columns inside your Word layout. Also, you can use different watermarks for different parts of the layout. For more information, go to Using sections in a Word layout.
- From the Report Layouts page, you can download a Word layout template for a report. The layout template makes it easier to convert an RDL layout or a customer-supplied Word file into a Word layout for a report.
- A new Word add-in lets you control conditional visibility of text, tables, or table rows/columns.
The new Word add-in can already be installed, and you can test it too:
I suggest to try it out asap, because potentially, when other planned features for this plugin will be added, it could mean there might not be a need anymore for RDLC layouts 😉
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I like RDLC reports when done the right way – using group headers and group footers instead of page headers and page footers (with exceptions for page header field that always repeat on every page and are ither first or last in the dataset,