Dynamics NAV 2013 – Drill Down on Business Charts

In one of my previous posts (Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 – Business Chart explained), I’ve explained how to build a Business chart from scratch. That post covers the details on how to build a dynamic Factbox showing Location wise inventory on Item List page in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2.

Business Charts in Dynamics NAV have the capacity to show detailed data when clicked on a particular spot in a chart.

In this blog, I will explain how we can add this drill down feature to the (Items Qty by location chart) business chart.

Please note: This post is in continuation to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 – Business Chart explained

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 – Business Chart explained

In this blog, I’m going to talk about Business Charts in detail and how you can create them from scratch.

Building Business Charts is one of the ways you can take advantage of the powerful charting capabilities in Dynamics NAV.

Please refer to my previous blog post (Building Charts in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2) to know about different ways of building charts in NAV.

WHAT ARE BUSINESS CHARTS?

Business charts are based on Business Chart control add-in which is provided by the Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.BusinessChart.dll assembly. More details about Displaying the Charts using Chart control add-in here

As compared to other chart types, Business charts provide advanced functionalities such as:

• Displaying complex data that is calculated on a page.
• Allowing end users to filter data and drill down to the details from the chart
• Allowing dynamic filtering of data
• Being supported on Dynamics NAV Web client.