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Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By : Alex Chow
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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 application to the RTC menu


Let's add both report 50000, Item Complaint Log and page 50004, Product Complaint List to the RTC menu so the users can access them.

Go back to the Object Designer and click on MenuSuite. Click on New to add a new MenuSuite for our company. When the Design Level screen appears, select Dept – Company and click on OK.

The MenuSuite designer is a new panel that will appear in the Object Designer screen.

If you click through each of the functional areas such as Financial Management, Sales & Marketing, and Purchase, you'll notice that the layout is identical to the Windows Client when you click on Departments. Why? The reason is because this is where the Department menu in the Windows Client comes from.

The place where the report and the Complaint page would make the most sense is either in Sales & Marketing, Purchase, Warehouse, and/or Manufacturing. For our purpose, let's add our module to Sales & Marketing.

Click on Sales & Marketing and...