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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

By : Alexander Drogin
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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)

Page creation wizard

We will begin our journey to the NAV user interface from the page creation wizard, a tool that allows us to solve most common interface tasks with several mouse clicks. With the page creation wizard, you can create different types of pages based on a table: display table fields on a page, organize them into groups, and categorize them in separate tabs. As we will also see later in this chapter, with the page creation wizard, it is also possible to create more complex UI elements, such as lists, subpages, and FactBoxes, and embed these into the main page.

Card pages

In Chapter 3, Tables - Creating Data Structure, we already ran the page creation wizard to create a simple page for table lookup and drilldown...