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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Design - Second Edition

By : Marije Brummel
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Design - Second Edition

By: Marije Brummel

Overview of this book

This book is a focused tutorial on Microsoft Dynamics NAV application development to help you develop complete applications and not just application outlines. This hands-on guide starts off by introducing the supply chain that you will be using throughout the book. You will then implement the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP suite and learn to set it up and customize it for various industries. You will learn how to customize Dynamics NAV to suit the different aspects of a business such as financial management, relationship management, production, jobs, trade, storage, logistics, and so on. The book will take you through these Microsoft-designed application features and show you how to customize and extend them safely. Therefore, by the end of this book, you will be able to create a structure of your own in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Chapter 2: A Sample Application

Let's create a structure of our own in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. To do this, we must think of something that is not already available in the standard package but can be built on top of it.

For our example application, we will run a squash court. Running a squash court is simple to understand but something we cannot do without changing and expanding the product. In order to define our changes, we first need to make a fit-gap analysis.

After this chapter, you will have better understanding on how to reuse the framework of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV application. We will show how to reverse engineer the application and to study its functionality by going into the application code.

For this example, some new and changed objects are required. The Appendix, Installation Guide, describes where to find the objects and how to install and activate them.

In the first part, we will look at how to reverse engineer the standard application to look at...