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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook - Second Edition

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 is a business management solution that helps simplify and streamline highly specialized business processes. Learning NAV programing in NAV 7 gives you the full inside view of an ERP system. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook covers topics that span a wide range of areas such as integrating the NAV system with other software applications including Microsoft Office, and creating reports to present information from multiple areas of the system,. We will not only learn the essentials of NAV programming, you will also be exposed to the technologies that surround NAV including.NET programming, SQL Server and NAV system administration. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook is written in a direct, to-the-point style to help you get what you need and continue working in NAV. The first half of the cookbook will help programmers using NAV for the first time, by walking them through the building blocks of writing code and creating objects such as tables, pages, and reports. The second half focuses on using the technologies surrounding NAV to build better solutions. You will learn how to write .NET code that works with the NAV system and how to integrate the system with other software applications such as Microsoft Office or even custom programs. You will learn everything you need to know for developing all types of NAV CSIDE objects, as well as how to integrate and maintain a NAV system.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgements
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating an InfoPath form for the NAV data


Microsoft InfoPath allows you to create forms to view and enter data outside of the NAV application. There is no programming involved, other than having an existing NAV page exposed as a web service.

Getting ready

Microsoft InfoPath must be installed on the client machine.

How to do it...

  1. Create a web service as described in the Creating web services recipe in Chapter 10, Integration.

  2. By navigating to File | New in InfoPath, select Web Service and click on Design Form:

  3. Select Receive Data.

  4. From the Dynamics NAV Web Server page, go to the following address and find the web service:

    http://localhost:7047/DynamicsNAV70/WS/services

  5. In this case we will be using http://localhost:7047/DynamicsNAV70/WS/Page/CustomerList, but this could be different on your system.

  6. Enter this address in the Data Connection Wizard window.

  7. Click on Next.

  8. Select Read Multiple.

  9. Click on Next and finally on Finish.

  10. You should now have a design template that looks like the following screenshot...