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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By : Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By: Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics Business Central is a full business solution suite and a complete ERP solution, which contains a robust set of development tools; these tools can help you to gain control over your business and can simplify supply chains, manufacturing, and operations. Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise covers the latest features of Dynamics Business Central and NAV from the end users' and developers' perspectives. It also provides an insight into different tools available for implementation, whether it's a new installation or migrating from the previous version of Dynamics NAV. This book will take you from an introduction to Dynamics NAV 2018 through to exploring all the techniques related to implementation and migration. You will also learn to expand functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation. As you progress through the book, you will learn to work with third-party add-on tools. In the concluding chapters, you will explore Dynamics 365 Business Central, the new Cloud solution based on the Microsoft NAV platform, and techniques for using Docker and Sandbox to develop applications. By the end of the book, you will have gained a deep understanding of the key components for successful Dynamics NAV implementation for an organization.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Navigating through your data


In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, it is extremely easy to navigate through data, remove default filters set by the system, and set your own filters to find or analyze your own data.

The Navigate functionality

You have probably seen the following Navigatebutton in many places in Microsoft Dynamics NAV:

You can actually see it on every single page that shows posted transactions, either in Posted Documents and/or in ledger entry pages.

When you click on the Navigate button, a page will be displayed, magically showing all of the posted documents and entries related to the record from where you hit the Navigate button. This means that, if you are ever wondering which transactions are related to an entry, Microsoft Dynamics NAV will do the hard work for you and find anything related to that particular document number.

Earlier in this chapter, we created and posted a Sales Invoice. If we open Posted Sales Invoice and hit Navigate, the following navigation page will be opened:

The...