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Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Sixth Edition

By : Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker
Book Image

Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Sixth Edition

By: Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a full ERP business solution suite with a robust set of development tools to support customization and enhancement. These tools can be used to tailor Business Central's in-built applications to support complete management functions for finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations. Using a case study approach, this book will introduce you to Dynamics 365 Business Central and Visual Studio Code development tools to help you become a productive Business Central developer. You'll also learn how to evaluate a product's development capabilities and manage Business Central-based development and implementation. You'll explore application structure, the construction of and uses for each object type, and how it all fits together to build apps that meet special business requirements. By the end of this book, you'll understand how to design and develop high-quality software using the Visual Studio Code development environment, the AL language paired with the improved editor, patterns, and features.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Successful Conclusions

Report building – phase 1

Our goal is to create a report for our WDTU data that will give us a list of all the scheduled radio show instances that have been organized within Radio Show by Radio Show Type, as shown in the following screenshot:

An easy way to recreate the preceding screenshot is to simply use IntelliSense. Type the letter D in the Code window, enter a name, and then the target table name (in this case, Radio Show Type, then Radio Show, and then Playlist Header).

Before we go any further, let's make sure we've got some test data in our tables. To enter data, we can use the pages we built earlier. The specifics of our test data aren't critical. We simply need a reasonable distribution of data so that our report test will be meaningful. The following triple screenshot provides an example minimal set of data:

Since the Visual Studio Code part of our report design is relatively simple, we can do it as part of our phase 1 effort. It's simple...