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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By : Alexander Drogin
Book Image

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
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Role-Tailored client and role centers


Role center is a special type of page created through the page designer. Usually role centers include a number of subpages.

Typical role center is not a single page, but a container with a number of subbpages presenting different dataset under various angles. Therefore, creating and configuring a role center may be a complicated task that requires creating many auxiliary tables and pages.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will develop a role center for our custom solution to present the most important information in one screen.

  1. Create a table with the following fields:

    Field No.

    Field Name

    Data Type

    Length

    Field Class

    1

    Primary Key

    Code

    10

    Normal

    2

    Certificates - Total

    Integer

    FlowField

    3

    Certificates - Issued

    Integer

    FlowField

    4

    Certificates - Revoked

    Integer

    FlowField

    5

    Date Filter

    Date

    FlowFilter

    6

    Future Period Filter

    Date

    FlowFilter

  2. Select field 2 Certificates - Total and change its CalcFormula property to...