00:00:00
[Music]
00:00:07
let's discover and explore reports in
00:00:10
business Central 2025 release wave 1 in
00:00:14
this video I'm going to show you three
00:00:16
different ways you can do that with the
00:00:18
new experience in the report
00:00:21
Explorer um directly from our
00:00:23
documentation in Microsoft learn or from
00:00:27
the report help on the request page so
00:00:30
let's dive into business Central and
00:00:32
look at report
00:00:33
Explorer you can get to the report
00:00:35
Explorer in a number of ways for
00:00:38
instance if you open tell me search
00:00:42
you'll find a link here to exploring
00:00:44
reports so that's the first way the
00:00:47
second way is to use the symbol here for
00:00:51
opening the RO Explorer and then from
00:00:58
here explore more roles and here under
00:01:02
reports and Analysis that is the
00:01:05
shortcut to the report Explorer and the
00:01:07
final option if I just go back to the
00:01:10
road Center
00:01:11
here is uh simply to use the link on top
00:01:15
of all Road centers all reports this
00:01:17
also takes you directly to the report
00:01:20
Explorer let me start by collapsing all
00:01:24
the different roles what you see here on
00:01:27
the screen are different what we call
00:01:29
departmental roles centers these are
00:01:31
meant to be showcasing functionality for
00:01:34
different roles in an organization and
00:01:36
if I just pick one of them finance and
00:01:39
explore this this opens up whoa lots of
00:01:43
reports let's collapse all of them and
00:01:46
just see so this opens up the the report
00:01:49
Explorer or the road Explorer with
00:01:52
different topics so we can see Power pi
00:01:55
receivables and so on and if we then
00:01:58
choose the ellipses here and expand all
00:02:01
of these this is your overview of all
00:02:04
the reporting capabilities that exist
00:02:07
within Finance as a new thing here in
00:02:09
wave one we uh if you hover over a link
00:02:14
here you either get one of these little
00:02:17
information icons or let's just pick one
00:02:20
of the other ones or you might get one
00:02:22
of these uh opening a new window let me
00:02:25
just show the icon first the information
00:02:28
if I choose this
00:02:30
um I can now see first of all what the
00:02:34
full caption or the title of the report
00:02:37
is but I can also read more about what
00:02:39
this report is so I can actually without
00:02:41
even opening the report I can read more
00:02:44
about what this report is
00:02:46
about and uh you notice that the same
00:02:49
icon that you saw on on the other report
00:02:52
open a new window here appears on this
00:02:56
little uh information popup so let's try
00:02:59
to explore this report further and um a
00:03:04
new thing here in the in the business
00:03:07
Central as in in wave one is that this
00:03:10
opens up in a new window which means the
00:03:13
actual Explorer here keeps being open
00:03:17
and therefore you can explore multiple
00:03:19
reports from that page now this is um
00:03:24
this is the just one way I can then
00:03:26
preview this report or whatever I like
00:03:28
when I'm done with this exploration I
00:03:30
can close the window and I'm back to the
00:03:33
report
00:03:34
Explorer and as I mentioned if there's
00:03:37
no information icon uh there will always
00:03:41
be this open a new window the difference
00:03:44
like why would this have one and this
00:03:46
one would not that's just a matter of
00:03:49
whether there's a teaching tiip defined
00:03:51
on the object here compared to this one
00:03:53
so this if fixed asset posting group net
00:03:57
change uh report does not have such
00:04:00
a text defined whereas the fixed asset
00:04:02
register report does have it so that was
00:04:06
the first way of exploring
00:04:08
reports the second way is directly in
00:04:13
the business Central documentation on
00:04:15
Microsoft learn uh the the easiest way I
00:04:18
find the report documentation is through
00:04:21
an AKA link let me show you what that is
00:04:24
about business Central documentation
00:04:27
have many of these AKA links that called
00:04:30
AKA links because they all start with
00:04:33
aka.ms something typically BC and then
00:04:36
something and for the for this link BC
00:04:39
analytics if I choose
00:04:42
this it will open up the overview of
00:04:46
everything in analytics in business
00:04:48
Central and here in the table of content
00:04:51
I can choose build-in reports and choose
00:04:53
the first link report overview and this
00:04:56
article gives a complete overview almost
00:05:00
complete overview of the reports that
00:05:02
exist in business Central these are
00:05:04
ordered by the the the functional area
00:05:08
so if you're interested in say sales
00:05:10
reports you can choose that and that
00:05:12
gives you um this table with first of
00:05:17
all scenario so an analytical scenario
00:05:21
of of the first report what you can use
00:05:23
it for uh the second link here is a link
00:05:26
directly to business Central so you can
00:05:29
open the report directly in business
00:05:31
Central from documentation if you use
00:05:33
this little tip of Control Plus selects
00:05:37
when you when you select the link it
00:05:39
will open up in a new window so you
00:05:41
still keep the exploration page here
00:05:43
open and finally each of these come with
00:05:47
an article that describe um the usage of
00:05:53
this particular report so for instance
00:05:55
it it's there's some description about
00:05:58
what the report shows and then there are
00:06:02
use cases described for different
00:06:05
personas that could be where this report
00:06:07
could be of interest and then
00:06:10
finally down here there's a try the
00:06:13
report link if I use this link I will
00:06:16
just go back to business Central I will
00:06:18
again use this control key plus select
00:06:21
to open this in a new window and this
00:06:24
will then open the request page for the
00:06:26
customer top 10 list Excel um in a new
00:06:29
window let's just have a look and now um
00:06:34
I can try the report here the third
00:06:37
option of discovering report content
00:06:41
let's just go back to the report
00:06:42
Explorer and uh and open a report from
00:06:45
there and let's choose the fixed asset
00:06:49
Book value one report again now I just
00:06:52
open it directly from the report
00:06:55
Explorer and I get the request page if
00:06:58
you for many of these reports if you
00:07:00
choose the title here or caption it will
00:07:04
open up something called a teaching tip
00:07:07
this also works even if you have turned
00:07:10
off teaching tiip by default you can
00:07:11
still get to the teaching tiip by
00:07:14
clicking that uh
00:07:16
link if you want to dive further and you
00:07:19
don't have to do this but you could also
00:07:21
just open the help Pane and the same
00:07:24
text will appear over here if that text
00:07:27
have been defined on the object on the
00:07:29
report report and finally there is a way
00:07:33
here directly from the help Paine to go
00:07:35
back to the business Central
00:07:37
documentation for the giving report and
00:07:39
if I then choose this link I now get the
00:07:44
documentation for the fixed asset Book
00:07:46
value report again with use case and
00:07:48
description and so on so that's how how
00:07:51
the exploration and discoverability of
00:07:54
reports come hand in hand both in the
00:07:57
business Central role Explorer in the
00:08:00
request page in the help Pane and in the
00:08:03
documentation in Microsoft learn
