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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

By : Alexander Drogin
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

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. This book gets you started with its integrated development environment for solving problems by customizing business processes. This book introduces the NAV development environment – C/SIDE. It gives an overview of the internal system language and the most essential development tools. The book will enable the reader to customize and extend NAV functionality with C/AL code, design a user interface through pages, create role centers, and build advanced reports in Microsoft Visual Studio. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to extend the NAV data model, how to write and debug custom code, and how to exchange data with external applications.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Designing a report request page

Every time you run a report, you see a page that prompts you to set filters on data items. This is a report request page, and its functions are wider then a just setting filters on underlying data items. Any parameters you want to pass to the report can be entered through its request page. On the other hand, we can reduce the number of default parameters requested by the page. A separate filtering section in the report request page is shown for each data item. It does not make sense for many reports and clutters the interface with useless elements. For example, in the reports created so far, we don't need to filter contract lines and would like to remove that section from the request page.

To remove filter sections you don't need on the page, just set the value of the DataItemTableView property for the report data item. It is sufficient...