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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By : Alexander Drogin
Book Image

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
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Presenting related data in FactBoxes


FactBoxes are subpages presenting information related to the main page, but considered less important than the main content. This is an auxiliary page that can be minimized or completely removed from the view when it is not needed.

How to do it...

This recipe creates a FactBox to present information about item certificates in sales orders.

  1. Create a new page in page designer.

  2. Select the table 50010 Item Certificate as a source for the page. Choose Create a page using a wizard option and select the page type CardPart.

  3. Add fields to the page:

    • No.

    • Certification Authority

    • Issued Date

  4. The FactBox page must display the certificate expiration date the same way as it is shown in the Item Certificate Card page. In the next recipe we will see how to reuse the function we already have in page 50010. For now, let's copy the function to the new page.

  5. Declare two global variables: ExpirationDate of type Date and IsCertificateOverdue of type Boolean.

  6. Close variable declarations...