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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

Data clean up


When a new complaint record is created, it will be inserted into the Complaint Header table. When the lines are added, it will be inserted into the Complaint Line table. When comments are added, it will add it to the Complaint Comment table.

All is fine and dandy when we're adding, but what about when the records are deleted? If a user goes in and deletes a Complaint Header record from the Product Complaints page, how will Dynamics NAV know to delete the associated Complaint Line and Complaint Comment records?

The answer unfortunately is not magic (although sometimes I wish it would be); it's done through C/AL programming on the Complaint Header table. Like a good student, you would've gone to the Sales Header table and looked at the OnDelete trigger to draw inspiration.

Let's put the clean-up code into our Complaint Header table. Go to Table 50000 and bring up the Table Designer screen. The first thing we need to do is to declare the C/AL Globals for the Complaint Line and Complaint...