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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

Subscribing to business and integration events


Business and integration events are raised by C/AL code to notify subscribers about the execution of certain actions in application business logic. For example, these kinds of events in codeunit 90 Purch.-Post, are OnBeforePostPurchaseDoc and OnAfterPostPurchaseDoc. The first one is raised when a purchase document is submitted to the posting procedure, before processing, and the second event is called immediately after the document is processed.

Codeunit 22 Item Jnl.-Post Line raises a corresponding event when inserting a certain type of a ledger entry. Now we will see how to update an item ledger entry, filling in custom fields, by subscribing to an integration event to avoid modifying the application code in codeunit 22.

How to do it...

This recipe illustrates the steps required to create an object subscribing to an event raised by the codeunit Item Jnl.-Post Line when it processes a journal line.

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