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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By : Alexander Drogin
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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

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. Its integrated development environment enables customizations with minimal disruption to business processes. The book starts explaining the new features of Dynamics NAV along with how to create and modify a simple module. Moving on, you will learn the importance of thinking beyond the boundaries of C/AL development and the possibilities opened by with it. Next, you will get to know how COM can be used to extend the functionalities of Dynamics NAV. You’ll find out how to extend the Dynamics NAV 2016 version using .NET interoperability and will see the steps required to subscribe to .NET events in order to extend Dynamics NAV. Finally, you’ll see the cmdlets available to manage extension packages. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge needed to become more efficient in selecting the extending methods, developing and deploying them to the Dynamics NAV, and practicing the best practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook
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Preface

Creating custom tables


Data is the core of any business application. We will start developing our solution from designing the data model. The first recipe will show how to create custom tables, set up field references and configure FlowFields that are calculated by the NAV platform based on table data.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we design the data model for the solution.

  1. Open Object Designer and select Table in the list of object types. Click New. Table designer will open.

  2. Each table field must have a number, a name, and a data type. Number 1 is already assign automatically. In the Field Name field enter No. and choose Code as Data Type. Finally, enter 20 in Length. This will create a Code[20] field.

  3. Move to the next empty line. Field No. will automatically increment. Enter CA Code in Field Name, Code in Data Type, and 20 in Length.

  4. Create other fields as given in the following table:

    Field No.

    Field Name

    Data Type

    Length

    1

    No.

    Code

    20

    2

    CA Code

    Code

    20

    3

    Item No.

    Code...