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Learning Dynamics NAV Patterns

By : Marije Brummel
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Learning Dynamics NAV Patterns

By: Marije Brummel

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a complete ERP system, which also contains a robust set of development tools to support customization and enhancement. These include an object designer for each of the seven application object types, a business application-oriented programming language with .NET interface capability, a compiler, a debugger, and programming testing language support. Learning Dynamics NAV Patterns will guide you through the NAV way of solving problems. This book will first introduce you to patterns and the software architecture of the NAV and then help you to build an example application. Then, it walks you through the details of architectural patterns, design patterns, and implementation patterns. This book will also talk about anti-patterns and handling legacy code. Finally, it teaches you to build solutions using patterns. Proven patterns and best practices will help you create better solutions that are easy to maintain in larger teams across several locations. It will guide you through combining abstract patterns using easy-to-understand examples and will help you decide which patterns to use in which scenarios.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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The Select Pattern

When a transaction is started with a record as a parameter, the transaction sometimes need extra information to decide how the transaction needs to behave. When using the OnRun() trigger of a Codeunit to start the transaction, we can only use one table as a parameter to the function. The Select pattern helps us in working around this limitation in an elegant way, allowing us to write clean and readable code.

More information about the pattern can be found in the How Do I video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxywT2XSpcI&list=PLhZ3P-LY7CqmVszuvtJLujFyHpsVN0U_w&index=7.

Technical description

To be able to give the extra information to the function, we need to add extra fields to the table that acts as placeholders or properties. These fields are not available from the user interface, and should be non-editable.

They need to be set prior to calling the transaction, but they don't have to be written to the database...