No. The package label layouts supplied with Dynamic Ship are Word layouts, so adjusting one does not require RDL or the Microsoft report designer. The usual approach is to take the closest supplied layout as a starting point, open it in Word, move and edit elements to match the specification you have been given, and then select that layout for the customer and ship-to address it applies to. Creating a new report object is not part of the process.
Why This Distinction Matters
Business Central supports both RDL and Word layouts for report objects, and RDL is the format most people associate with label work. It is also the format that puts label changes firmly in a developer’s queue. Word layouts move the same work to whoever understands the trading partner requirement, which is often a shipping supervisor or a functional consultant rather than a developer. For businesses that add trading partners regularly, that difference decides whether label changes take a day or a development cycle.
The practical consequence is that a business does not need to wait on Insight Works to add a layout for a trading partner that is not already covered. The supplied library is a starting point rather than a fixed set.
Which Labels Are Business Central Reports
Not everything printed during shipping is a Business Central report, and conflating the two causes confusion. The internal package label, packing documents, and bills of lading are Business Central reports with editable layouts. The carrier label is different: it is generated by the carrier and returned through the carrier connection, so its layout is not a report you edit. What you can do with a carrier label is add Business Central data to it through shipment option placeholders, print it on larger stock and use the space around it, or commission a customization to modify the returned format where the carrier supports that.
So the honest split is that anything Dynamic Ship prints itself is a Word layout you can edit, and anything the carrier prints for you is the carrier’s format with limited additions.
Practical Guidance for Layout Work
Copy rather than start from scratch. A supplied layout already carries the correct dataset and the barcode generation method, which are the two things most likely to be built incorrectly from a blank document. Keep one layout per trading partner requirement rather than building one conditional layout, since selection happens by customer and ship-to address anyway. And test with real packed data rather than sample values, because barcode content and field truncation problems typically surface only with real lot numbers, real serial numbers, and real address lengths.
Relevant Tools
Dynamic Ship prints the internal package label, the packing documents, and the bills of lading whose layouts are edited in Word and selected by customer and ship-to address.
License Plating uses a configurable label report for pallets, boxes, and containers, so the same Word based approach applies when the packaging unit is what needs labeling.
To summarize, RDL is not a requirement for Dynamic Ship package labels. Word layouts keep label maintenance with the people who understand the requirement, and the only layout genuinely outside your control is the one the carrier generates.