Build and Extend Reports MB-820 Practice Questions (Page 5)

Questions 21–25

1. 21application · medium

   A company uses the standard Sales Invoice report. They have created a custom report that adds a barcode and a customer-specific watermark. The custom report has the same data items and columns as the standard report. They want the custom report to appear automatically whenever a user prints or previews the Sales Invoice report from the Sales Invoice page. What should the developer do?

   • ACreate a new page that contains the custom report and instruct users to open it from the role center.
   • BAdd an action to the Sales Invoice page that runs the custom report and hide the standard print action.
   • CModify the standard Sales Invoice report to include the barcode and watermark.
   • DUse the ReportSubstitution property on the custom report to point to the standard report ID.
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2. 22application · medium

   A developer is creating a report that processes sales orders and updates a log table with the number of orders processed. The report does not need to display any data to the user. The developer wants to ensure the report runs efficiently and does not generate a visual output. What should the developer do?

   • ASet the RDLCLayout property to an empty string.
   • BSet the TransactionType property of the report to UpdateNoLocks.
   • CSet the ProcessingOnly property of the report to true.
   • DUse the SkipDataItem property on the data item.
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4. 23expert · hard

   A company has a standard report 'Customer - List' that is used in multiple places. They have created a custom report with ReportSubstitution to replace it. However, after deployment, they notice that some pages still show the original report when printing from certain list pages. What is the most likely reason?

   • AThe custom report is not set as the default layout for the original report.
   • BThe custom report does not have the same data items as the original report.
   • CThe pages that still show the original report are using a different report ID, not the one that was substituted.
   • DThe custom report is not published to the same extension as the pages that call the report.
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5. 24expert · hard

   You are developing a report that shows sales orders. The report should allow users to filter by customer and by date. You have added a customer data item and a date field to the request page. However, when a user selects a customer, the date field should be automatically set to the last order date for that customer. How should you implement this?

   • AUse the OnAfterGetCurrRecord trigger of the customer data item to set the date field value.
   • BUse the OnLookup trigger of the customer field on the request page to set the date field when the customer is selected.
   • CUse the OnValidate trigger of the customer field on the request page to set the date field when the customer is selected.
   • DUse the OnAfterGetRecord trigger of the customer data item to set the date field value.
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6. 25expert · hard

   A multinational company uses Business Central online. They have a sales invoice report that must be printed in the local language of each customer. The report is currently built with an RDLC layout that contains hardcoded English labels. The company has recently expanded to a new country and needs to add support for that language. They want to minimize maintenance effort and ensure that future language additions do not require developer intervention. Which approach should the developer take?

   • AKeep the RDLC layout and add new labels for the new language in the report object.
   • BUse the Language field on the report request page to let users choose the output language.
   • CConvert the report to use a Word layout and reference AL labels for all text.
   • DCreate a separate RDLC layout for each language and select it based on the customer's language code.
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