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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

Assigning role centers to user profiles


The role center is the central access point to everyday tasks for the user. This is what he or she will see first when launching the application, and the role center page should be configured accordingly. Role centers are assigned to users in agreement with their roles in the organization.

Getting ready

In this recipe you will assign the role center created in the previous demo, to a user profile. In order to do it, you will need all object from the Role-Tailored client and role centers recipe imported and compiled.

How to do it...

Now we will assign the custom role center to a user account to make it the user's homepage:

  1. In the application menu, open /Departments/Administration/Application Setup/RoleTailored Client/Profiles, or type Profiles in the Search field and select the Profiles page in the search results.

  2. In the Profiles page, click New to create a new user profile.

  3. Enter profile ID. Name CERT MANAGER and Certification Manager in the Description.

  4. Click...