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Programming Microsoft Dynamics??? NAV 2015

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Programming Microsoft Dynamics??? NAV 2015

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Programming Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV 2015
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Pages – The Interactive Interface

 

"The best journey is the one with the fewest steps. Shorten the distance between the user and their goal."

 
 --Author Unknown
 

"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong."

 
 --H.W. Longfellow

Pages are NAV 2015's object type for interactively presenting information. The page rendering routines that paint the page on the target display handle much of the data presentation detail. This allows a variety of clients to be created by Microsoft, such as Web browser resident clients, Windows RTC clients, and new tablet clients (iPad, Android, Windows). Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) have created mobile clients and even clients targeted to devices other than video displays.

One of the benefits of Page technology is the focus on the user experience rather than the underlying data structure. As always, the designer/developer has the responsibility of using the tools to their best effect. Another advantage of NAV 2015...