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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

Defining table relations in fields


In our requirements described previously, we specified that the program needs to be able to specify the customer and the vendor information. The customer and vendor information must be valid, or else it really defeats the whole purpose of keeping track of the appropriate information.

To ensure that the user enters the relevant customer, we will need the user to be able to select from an existing list of customers that's already defined in the Customer table. In order to enforce this, we will need to define the table relationships to the master table data or set up tables within each field.

  1. Go back to the Table Designer screen for our Table 50000 and click on the Customer No. row. Then, navigate to View | Properties.

  2. The table relationship we're looking for will be zero to many. So a customer can occur zero times or more on the Complaint Header table and the Complaint Header table can have none or one occurrence of a customer number.

  3. Click on the AssistEdit...