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title: Brand document reports with report themes
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# Brand document reports with report themes

> Reporting and data analysis: Brand document reports with report themes. Generally available, GA 2026-10 (Microsoft 365 roadmap). With the new composable layouts feature, you can apply a report theme on layouts to get consistent look and feel on the PDF output. It is possible to set defaults on a global level, per company, per report, or per layout, giving the administrator full flexibility of theming.

[Microsoft 365 roadmap 573327](https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=573327) · Reporting and data analysis · generally available · roadmap status "Launched", phase General Availability

## What Microsoft says

With the new composable layouts feature, you can apply a report theme on layouts to get consistent look and feel on the PDF output. It is possible to set defaults on a global level, per company, per report, or per layout, giving the administrator full flexibility of theming.

## Dates

- General availability: October CY2026 (2026 release wave 2)
- Public preview: not given
- On the roadmap since 2026-09-30, last changed 2026-09-30

## Covered by

Matched by Haiku among videos and Learn pages in the same galaxy system, checked against the roadmap ids and the evidence text. Every link below was reviewed by Opus.

### Videos

- [Introducing: Composite Document Layouts (2026 release wave 2)](../videos/-vdhfNMNZQk.md): Composite layouts for documents at [0:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vdhfNMNZQk&t=6s); Theme application at [1:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vdhfNMNZQk&t=87s); Custom theme and header-footer layouts at [4:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vdhfNMNZQk&t=297s)

### Microsoft Learn

- [Define Report Layouts in AL for Business Central](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-report-layout-declaration)
- [Set Up Report Themes and Header/Footer Layouts](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/ui-set-up-report-themes-header-footer-layouts)

Source: Microsoft 365 roadmap. Status words follow the roadmap.