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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By : Stefano Demiliani
Book Image

Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By: Stefano Demiliani

Overview of this book

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the real world often requires you to integrate the ERP with external applications or solve complex architectural tasks in order to have a final successful project. This book will show you how to extend a Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation to the enterprise world in a practical way. The book starts with an introduction to Microsoft Dynamics NAV architecture and then moves on to advanced topics related to implementing real-world solutions based on NAV and external applications. You will learn how an enterprise distributed architecture with NAV at the core can be implemented. Through a series of real-world cases on every topic and every industry (sales, retail, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and so on), you’ll see step by step how to efficiently solve a technical problem. These common problems encountered in a NAV implementation will be solved using the entire technology stack that Microsoft offers. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge to efficiently solve certain scenarios, you will know which is the best solution architecture to propose to a customer and how to implement it.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Tips and tricks


When using NAV web services from external applications, I would recommend the following:

  • Direct exposure of NAV web services to the external application should be done only if the consumer application is in your local network and if you manage that application

  • If you want to expose NAV web services to external applications on the Internet, it's better to write a proxy application (middle tier) that permits you to not directly expose NAV to the outside world

  • With a proxy service (a custom web service between NAV and the client application), you can expose only the desired method with the desired signatures, not the entire NAV entity

  • For authentication with NAV web services, I recommend to impersonate a dedicated user with the desired permission

  • Place all your settings (web service URLs) in app.config or web.config