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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

By : Alexander Drogin
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

By: Alexander Drogin

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suite for organizations. The system offers specialized functionality for manufacturing, distribution, government, retail, and other industries. This book gets you started with its integrated development environment for solving problems by customizing business processes. This book introduces the NAV development environment – C/SIDE. It gives an overview of the internal system language and the most essential development tools. The book will enable the reader to customize and extend NAV functionality with C/AL code, design a user interface through pages, create role centers, and build advanced reports in Microsoft Visual Studio. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to extend the NAV data model, how to write and debug custom code, and how to exchange data with external applications.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Field class – Flowfields and Flowfilters

In previous sections of this chapter, we created several tables, all of them containing fields that stored some data and were mapped to fields in corresponding tables in SQL Server. Besides these data fields, C/SIDE has two field types that are not stored in the SQL database, but help in calculating aggregated values from other tables. Now we will see how to create and configure fields called FlowFields and FlowFilters.

Modifying FieldClass

The property FieldClass defines how the table field can be used by the client application. Possible values of the property are explained as follows:

  • Normal: This is the usual field that contains table data. So far, we have worked only with...