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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
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Configuring user permissions


User authentication in NAV is performed by the NAV server, no matter whether the application is accessed from a role-tailored client, web client, or if it is published on a SharePoint site. SharePoint can control user access to its content--read applications, and list and execute an application, while NAV authentication requests will be redirected to the NAV server.

In this recipe, we will set up a user account that will be able to run NAV applications published on a SharePoint portal.

How to do it...

  1. Open the Settings menu and click Site Settings. On the Site Settings page, open Site permissions as shown:

  2. To create a permission level, click Permission Levels in the PERMISSIONS menu:

  3. SharePoint comes with a set of predefined permission levels that are listed in this page. To create a custom permission level, click Add a Permission Level:

  4. Enter the name of the new permission level (AppUsers) and a description. In the list of permissions, check the View Application...