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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

Using database trigger events


Database trigger events give the C/AL developers the possibility to receive notifications when data in a table is being updated. There are eight events raised on data modification - before and after each of the four table actions: insert, modify, delete, and rename. Two more events are reserved for field validation - OnBeforeValidateEvent and OnAfterValidateEvent.

Unlike business and integration events, database triggers are not raised by the application code, they are managed by the NAV server.

How to do it...

In the following recipe, you will create an event subscriber function that subscribes to database trigger events to implement additional verification of the record before it is inserted into the database.

  1. In the NAV codeunit designer, create a new codeunit with ID 50902 and name Database Trigger Event.

  2. In C/AL Globals, declare a function OnInsertVerifyRecord that will subscribe to the OnInsert event of the Customer table.

  3. Open the function properties. In the...