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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

Linking FactBoxes


We've added a FactBox to the Product Complaint page, but how does Dynamics NAV know which customer to display in the FactBox? Well, we have to tell it to display the right customer information!

Go back to Page Designer for the Product Complaint page and put your cursor on the Part type where we defined our FactBox and click on View | Properties:

Similar to the previous chapter where we specified the table relationships, we can define the relationships between the tables at the page level. The property we want to use is the SubPageLink property.

Click on the AssistEdit button and define the form link. This is very similar to defining the field relationship on table fields. The Customer Credit Information FactBox uses the Customer table as its source table. So, we want to relate the Customer table No. field to the Customer No. field on our Product Complaint page:

Click on OK to confirm the table relation ship settings. The property for the Part type for FactBox should be the...