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# Composite Layouts in Business Central 29.0: Brand One Report End to End

[Read the post](http://mohana-dynamicsnav.blogspot.com/2026/10/composite-layouts-in-business-central.html) · Mohana's Dynamics NAV & BC blog (Mohana Yadav) · 2026-10-05 · 1637 words · tier community · reviewed (checked by Opus)

> Business Central 29.0 enables composite layouts where branding is split into three separate parts (header/footer, theme, and body) that merge at render time instead of baking everything into one Word document. The post walks through a complete example of branding the Standard Sales Invoice report for Contoso, covering setup in both the UI and AL code.

## Key points

- Composite layouts split a document into a Body layout plus a reusable header/footer part and a theme part, merged when the report runs
- Theme and header/footer parts must be approved before they can be assigned, and only Body subtype layouts accept them; Default and RDLC layouts do not
- Defaults for theme and header/footer can be set at global, company, report and layout level, with the most specific winning, which makes multi-company branding easy
- In AL, the Subtype, HeaderFooterPart and ThemePart properties configure this; theme files must be .dotx while body and header/footer files are .docx
- A shared company information dataitem in Word layouts in 29.0 lets one header/footer part work across many reports

## AL objects mentioned

As named in the post. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

- [report 1306 "Standard Sales - Invoice"](../../objects/report/1306.md)
- other "Manage themes and header-footer layouts"
- other "Report Layouts"
- other "Report themes and header-footer setup"
- other "Report defaults for themes and header-footer setup"

## Context

- Features: Composite layouts, Report themes, Header/footer parts, Theme merging, Approval workflow, Layout defaults cascading, Multi-company branding, Shared company information dataitem
- Versions: 29.0

Source: Mohana's Dynamics NAV & BC blog, community blog. Summary, key points and quotes are derived (CONTENT-NOTICE.md); read the original for the full text.