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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 the Complaint Comments table


The last requirement that we want to work on is to allow the user to add comments. We can allow the users to enter comments directly to the lines area. For simplicity, we can leave it at that. However, doing that will clump the item data with comments. The users may have to differentiate what's a comment and what's an item if it's a long complaint log.

It's fine if you don't care about messy data. However, as we all know, creating reports based on messy data is not good. We're more professional than that; the comments should be in a specific section for the users to type in. The user can still enter brief comments on the line if they wish, but there's an area for the users to enter whatever drama they've encountered to their heart's content.

Using the existing Sales Order structure in Dynamics NAV as our basis, the table we want to model for the comments is the Sales Comment Line table. The table ID is 44.

Similar to the Complaint Line table, the user needs...