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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)

Customizing relationship management

RM is a complete module that is not often highly customized or verticalized. However, we will describe some possible changes and how to integrate an add-on, in our case the squash application with relationship management.

All examples in this chapter are part of the objects downloaded for Chapter 2, A Sample Application.

Salutation formula types

By default, the system has two salutation formula types, formal and informal, allowing us to print Dear Mrs. Brown, or Dear Angela, but what if we want to print Attn. Mrs. Brown?

For this, we need to first add an option to the Salutation Type field in the Salutation Formula table.

Support the formula

Next, we want to use the formula when printing a Contact Cover Sheet. This uses the Format Address functionality from codeunit 365.

This codeunit is the single point in Dynamics NAV where all the address formatting is done.

The formatting of contact persons is done in the ContactAddrAlt...