How to substitute a default report with a custom report in Business Central on premise

 

Hello Reader,

If you are reading this then probably you have been checking a couple of resources to find a solution to the stated issue.

I had a similar challenge and after spending a couple of hours checking online resources, I found it very easy !

    

Follow these steps.

Create your custom report in a new extension. If you don't know how to create extensions follow this

After creating your Custom report in the extension, you will have to create a code unit with subscriber event to codeunit Report management.

Just publish and run your extension. You should have your reports substitution successful

Here is a sample 

codeunit 100 "GP Base Report Substittuion"

{

    trigger OnRun()

    begin

    end;

[EventSubscriber(ObjectType::Codeunit, Codeunit::ReportManagement,

'OnAfterSubstituteReport', '', false, false)]

    local procedure OnSubstituteReport(ReportId: Integer; var NewReportId: Integer)

    begin

//Reminder is the name of the default report object in Business Central

        if ReportId = Report::Reminder then

            NewReportId := Report::GPReminder;

//GPReminder is the name of the custom report you created to substitute the default

// report

    end;

}