It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class. | ||
| --J. Willard Marriott | ||
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. | ||
| --Eliel Saarinen | ||
The design of an application should begin at the simplest level, with the design of the data elements. The type of data your development tool supports has a significant effect on our design. Since NAV is designed for financially oriented business applications, NAV data types are financial and business oriented.
In this chapter, we will cover many of the data types that we use within NAV. For each data type, we will cover some of the more frequently modified field properties and how particular properties, such as FieldClass, are used to support application functionality. FieldClass is a fundamental property...