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Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Sixth Edition

By : Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker
Book Image

Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Sixth Edition

By: Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a full ERP business solution suite with a robust set of development tools to support customization and enhancement. These tools can be used to tailor Business Central's in-built applications to support complete management functions for finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations. Using a case study approach, this book will introduce you to Dynamics 365 Business Central and Visual Studio Code development tools to help you become a productive Business Central developer. You'll also learn how to evaluate a product's development capabilities and manage Business Central-based development and implementation. You'll explore application structure, the construction of and uses for each object type, and how it all fits together to build apps that meet special business requirements. By the end of this book, you'll understand how to design and develop high-quality software using the Visual Studio Code development environment, the AL language paired with the improved editor, patterns, and features.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Successful Conclusions

Modifying for Navigate

If our modification creates a new table that will contain posted data and the records contain both Document No. and Posting Date fields, we can include this new table in the Navigate function.

The AL Code for Navigate functionality based on Posting Date and Document No. is found in the FindRecords and FindExtRecords functions of page 344Navigate. The following screenshot shows the segment of the Navigate CASE statement code for the CheckLedgerEntry table:

The code checks READPERMISSION. If that permission is enabled for this table, then the appropriate filtering is applied. Next, there is a call to the InsertIntoDocEntry function, which fills in the temporary table that is displayed in the Navigate page. If we wish to add a new table to the Navigate function, we must replicate this functionality for our new table.

In addition, we must add the code that will call up the appropriate page to display the records that Navigate finds. This code...