I was quoting an upgrade proposal for a client that had a lot of custom reports. Trying to identify which ones were actively being used today, the client did not have a definitive answer. So we needed an strategy to identify the reports that was being used. And at the same time we would like to know who used them, and how often – that way we could make a more qualified decision about the reports to upgrade.

Of course every report could be modified so it wrote to a report usage table (but that would require you to modify every report in the system). Fortunately there is an easier way to handle this. In codeunit 1 Application Management, the function FindPrinter():

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