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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

A quick test of our application


Let's take a look at what we've created so far. Click on the Object Designer option in the Development Environment, find page 50000, Product Complaint, and click on Run.

When you do this, a page will be displayed from the Windows Client showing our page. By default, when you run the page from the Object Designer, it will be in the View Only mode. Click on the New button to create a new record and enter the following data in the header fields:

  • No.: Type in 10000

  • Customer No.: Select customer 10000The Cannon Group

  • Vendor No.: Select vendor 10000London Postmaster

  • Document Date: Enter today's date

In the Product Complaint Subform section, enter the following data:

Item No.

Quantity Accepted

Quantity Rejected

70000

1

2

70001

3

1

70002

12

1

After you're done entering the data, your complaint screen should look like this:

Right off the bat, you will notice some glaring usability problems. They are as follows:

  • The No. field should...