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Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By : Alex Chow
Book Image

Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By: Alex Chow

Overview of this book

So, your company has made the wise decision to use Dynamics NAV as its main business software for all its enterprise resource planning. Dive in and learn the ins and outs of the software from a development standpoint and unlock the software's full potential.The book will walk you through creating an application from start to finish. Once you know how to create a working application that users can access, you will have the knowledge and the resources needed to create other applications based on the tutorials covered in this guide.You will start by obtaining a free trial version of Dynamics NAV and then be introduced to the world of analyzing and deriving user problems into a requirements list. Finally, you will be shown how to use the software to knock out these requirements. You will learn everything you need in order to begin creating your own applications, from translating the user's requirements to creating and modifying your system applications. Use Dynamics NAV's capability to create an application and address the user's needs, while also learning best practices and simple solutions. "Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development" will help you on your way to becoming a great developer!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Exploring the list page


The first type of page you'll see in Dynamics NAV is the list page. You can see this by clicking on the Customers tab shown here:

The list page displays a number of records—as many as the screen allows—in a particular table. The list page is typically used for searching for a particular record that you want to work with.

On most list pages, if there is relevant data associated with the particular record, you'll find it to the right of the list page. These "frames" of information are called FactBoxes.

FactBoxes allow the user quick access to the information without having to bring up any additional icon. The nice thing about FactBoxes is that they are customizable and reusable if you're creating a new page related to, in this case, the customer table.

Typically, numbers are shown in the FactBoxes. If you want further details on, for instance, the outstanding sales orders for a particular customer, all you need to do is click on that number and a new list page will be...