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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

Adding new fields to the tables


Go back to the Table Designer screen for our Table 50000. The requirement list states that we need the customer and vendor information. We also need the date on which that document is created. So let's do that.

The Data Type and Length of these fields mimic the Customer table. Since this data is related, you have to ensure that Data Type and Length are the same, or else you will get a lot of errors when you're trying to copy data between these tables and fields. If you go back and look at the Sales Header table, you'll see that the Data Type and Length of the fields are the same as the Customer table.

Note

It's generally a very bad idea to try to expand the length or change the data type of the fields in the standard Dynamics NAV tables. The reason is because the standard logic and business rules are all based on the standard data type and field length. Changing them may cause serious damage to your Dynamics NAV database. If, for whatever reason, you need to...