Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. | ||
| --Persian Proverb | ||
Design must reflect the partial and aesthetic in business but above all…good design must primarily serve people. | ||
| --Thomas J. Watson, Sr. | ||
The design of an application should begin at the simplest level, with the design of the data elements. The type of data your development tool supports has a significant effect on your design. Because NAV is designed for financially-oriented business applications, NAV data types are financial and business oriented.
In this chapter, we will cover many of the data types you will use within NAV. For each data type, we will cover field properties and how particular properties, such as FieldClass, are used to support application functionality. FieldClass is a fundamental property that defines whether the contents of the field are data to be processed or control information to be interpreted. In particular, we will be covering...