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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

Designing the user menu


It is fine for an application developer to run objects directly from the object designer while working on code. System users do not work with object designer, and access to application functions must be arranged in the user menu.

How to do it...

Now we will build a user menu for the custom solution.

  1. To create a new menu suite, select MenuSuite in the object designer and click New. You will be requested to select a menu design level. Available design levels depend on your license. If you have a license of a certified Microsoft Partner, select Dept - Partner level. If your license is a customer's license with object designer access, use the menu Dept - Company level:

  2. In the menu pane, you will see a list of menus available in all menu suites existing in the application. Right-click on any menu and choose Create Menu from the drop-down menu:

  3. Enter the menu name when requested. You can also change the default bitmap:

  4. Click OK. A new empty menu will be created. The next...