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Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By : Alex Chow
Book Image

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 document page


The last page that we need to pay attention to is the document page. An example of the document page is the Sales Orders page. Go back to the home page and click on Sales Orders; then double-click on a sales order to see an example of a document page.

The usual layout is consistent to that of a card page. You have the FactBoxes to the right and the FastTabs to group the data. One thing unique to the document page is the lines within the page, which are called subpages.

This allows for the entry of detailed information in respect to the header record. In this case, since we're looking at the sales order page, the header is where the sales order number is generated. This is where we put the customer number, the customer purchase order number, and the shipping location for the order. Lines is where we put which items and services the customer will be ordering from us.

You will typically find the document page on any order screen (purchase and sales), a few master...