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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By : Alexander Drogin
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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By: Alexander Drogin

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suite for organizations. The system offers specialized functionality for manufacturing, distribution, government, retail, and other industries. Its integrated development environment enables customizations with minimal disruption to business processes. The book starts explaining the new features of Dynamics NAV along with how to create and modify a simple module. Moving on, you will learn the importance of thinking beyond the boundaries of C/AL development and the possibilities opened by with it. Next, you will get to know how COM can be used to extend the functionalities of Dynamics NAV. You’ll find out how to extend the Dynamics NAV 2016 version using .NET interoperability and will see the steps required to subscribe to .NET events in order to extend Dynamics NAV. Finally, you’ll see the cmdlets available to manage extension packages. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge needed to become more efficient in selecting the extending methods, developing and deploying them to the Dynamics NAV, and practicing the best practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook
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Preface

Understanding database triggers


Data in the database is constantly changed - records are inserted, updated, deleted. Almost any user action results in data modification, and all modifications of data run application triggers.

How to do it...

In this recipe we will learn how to use some of the most important and frequently used table triggers to control data flow.

  1. Open table 50010 Item Certificate in object designer. Click C/AL Code in the View menu or press F9 to open table code. Open C/AL Globals and create two functions, DeleteCertificateActions and UpdateItemOnActions.

  2. Position cursor in the DeleteCertificateActions variable and declare a local record variable ItemCertificateAction:

    Name

    DataType

    Subtype

    ItemCertificateAction

    Record

    Item Certificate Action

  3. This is a simple function with lines of code in it:

            ItemCertificateAction.SETRANGE("Certificate No.","No."); 
            ItemCertificateAction.DELETEALL; 
    
  4. Move to the function UpdateItemOnActions. Declare a local...