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Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By : Alex Chow
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Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By: Alex Chow

Overview of this book

So, your company has made the wise decision to use Dynamics NAV as its main business software for all its enterprise resource planning. Dive in and learn the ins and outs of the software from a development standpoint and unlock the software's full potential.The book will walk you through creating an application from start to finish. Once you know how to create a working application that users can access, you will have the knowledge and the resources needed to create other applications based on the tutorials covered in this guide.You will start by obtaining a free trial version of Dynamics NAV and then be introduced to the world of analyzing and deriving user problems into a requirements list. Finally, you will be shown how to use the software to knock out these requirements. You will learn everything you need in order to begin creating your own applications, from translating the user's requirements to creating and modifying your system applications. Use Dynamics NAV's capability to create an application and address the user's needs, while also learning best practices and simple solutions. "Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development" will help you on your way to becoming a great developer!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Exploring the card page


The card page gives you greater detail on a particular record. The card page is mainly used to insert, delete, or modify a record. This is just as with the list page described previously; on the right side of the card you'll see the FactBoxes related to this particular record. You can click on the numbers in the FactBoxes to bring up the list page to see how the number was derived.

Good real estate is scarce, especially if that real estate is your screen. The Dynamics NAV product team at Microsoft understands that everyone wants everything displayed on their screens. However, your screen is only so big. You can increase your screen resolution, but your eyes may hurt. In order to organize the large amount of data Dynamics NAV can capture on a single card page, data is grouped using FastTabs.

If you expand the FastTabs, you'll see the relevant information related to the respective FastTab. In our case, since we're looking at the customer card, the Communication FastTab...