Cues as tiles already exist in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV client that display business data as FlowFields and integers. But with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015, they start as some kind of BI tools to also present key performance indicators (KPIs) on Role Centers and includes the following new features. Now we have enhanced the functionality of Cues to give application developers, as well as end users, more control over the appearance of Cues. Each changing will be seen on all clients.

Now, we have not only static tiles. With new feature, we can configure the Cue to display a bar along its upper border that changes color based on the data in the cue. It can be made by developing a cue or by end-user, using “Set Up Cues” on Role Center page. With this feature, Expressive Tiles provide us more quality in daily work.

Developing cues, we can change the image that displays on the Cue or set up the Cue without an image on property. There are several images to choose from and for now, we cannot use customized images.

In previous Microsoft Dynamics NAV versions, we could only set up Cues based on FlowFields and we could set up them to display on integer data types. Now, in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015, we can also use normal fields (instead only FlowFields) and we can also use a decimal data type. This provides us additional data aggregation possibilities instead of just COUNT, such as SUM, MAX, MIN, and AVG and of course, extends source of Cue data, such as using query objects.

By using the AutoFormat and AutoFormatExpr properties, we can customize the format of the value in a Cue. For example, we can set the number of decimal places, or place a symbol such as currency sign or % before or after a value.