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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By : Stefano Demiliani
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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By: Stefano Demiliani

Overview of this book

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the real world often requires you to integrate the ERP with external applications or solve complex architectural tasks in order to have a final successful project. This book will show you how to extend a Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation to the enterprise world in a practical way. The book starts with an introduction to Microsoft Dynamics NAV architecture and then moves on to advanced topics related to implementing real-world solutions based on NAV and external applications. You will learn how an enterprise distributed architecture with NAV at the core can be implemented. Through a series of real-world cases on every topic and every industry (sales, retail, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and so on), you’ll see step by step how to efficiently solve a technical problem. These common problems encountered in a NAV implementation will be solved using the entire technology stack that Microsoft offers. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge to efficiently solve certain scenarios, you will know which is the best solution architecture to propose to a customer and how to implement it.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
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Preface

Creating NAV business logic


The first step we have to do to develop our solution is to provide the business logic functionalities in NAV.

Our NAV must provide to the external application (B2B website) the following features:

  • A list of customers enabled to interact with the B2B website

  • For every customer, a list of its shipment addresses

  • A list of items with their details

  • A function to retrieve an item's availability and sales prices

  • A function to insert an order from the B2B website

Let's see how we can create NAV business logic by performing the following steps:

  1. To enable a customer entity to be visible to the external B2B website, we can add a Boolean field called Web Active on Customer Card. All customers with Web Active set as true will be visible to the external application.

  2. Open the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Environment, go to the Customer table (ID = 18), and create the Boolean field:

  3. After that, open Page 21 - Customer Card and add this new field to the user interface.

  4. To expose...