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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

By : Alexander Drogin
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

By: Alexander Drogin

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suite for organizations. The system offers specialized functionality for manufacturing, distribution, government, retail, and other industries. This book gets you started with its integrated development environment for solving problems by customizing business processes. This book introduces the NAV development environment – C/SIDE. It gives an overview of the internal system language and the most essential development tools. The book will enable the reader to customize and extend NAV functionality with C/AL code, design a user interface through pages, create role centers, and build advanced reports in Microsoft Visual Studio. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to extend the NAV data model, how to write and debug custom code, and how to exchange data with external applications.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Menu suite

In all code examples in this book so far, whenever we wanted to execute an object, we just ran it directly from the object designer. While this method works perfectly fine for an application developer, this is apparently not the way users are supposed to open pages and execute actions. Objects executed from the user interface must be arranged in the user menu with MenuSuite objects.

User menu design has a layered structure; several menu suites can exist in the system, each one consolidating a set of objects on its own menu design level. The basic application menu structure provided by Microsoft is described in the MenuSuite object 1010, Dept - MBS. Any localized version of NAV also includes a country-level menu in the Dept - Country menu suite, and in some cases a region-level Dept - Region.

Up to ten add-on menus can co-exist in one application; these are developed...