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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design

By : Marije Brummel
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design

By: Marije Brummel

Overview of this book

Dynamics NAV 2009 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software product from Microsoft that can be used for variety of business needs. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, and intended to assist with finance, manufacturing, Customer Relationship Management, supply chains, analytics, and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises. This book is a focused tutorial on Microsoft Dynamics NAV application development, so you can develop complete applications and not just application outlines. It will show NAV developers how to create different kinds of applications. Different kinds of application are vital in different industries like fashion, automobile, retail, books (education), and other industries. It starts off by introducing the supply chain that you will be using throughout the book. You will implement the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP suite and learn how it is set up and customized for various industries. You will be able to customize Dynamics NAV to suit the different aspects of a business such as Financial Management, Relationship Management, Production, Jobs, Trade, Storage, Logistics, and so on. The book will take you through these Microsoft-designed application features and show you how to customize and extend them safely. Thus, you will be able to create a structure of your own in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface
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Version and object management

When doing software development, discussing version management is unavoidable. Microsoft Dynamics NAV is flexible in this and allows developers to make their own decisions on this subject rather than forcing them to one way of versioning.

What is a version

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV there are two ways of determining what a version is. The first and easiest approach is to change the version of an object each time it changes. The initial released version is 1.00 and each change increments to 1.01, 1.02, and so on. A big change will lead to version 2.00.

Another more common approach in Microsoft Dynamics NAV is to group version numbers in releases of a group of objects together. When this is applied the application gets a version number that is incremented each time we release. This means that an object with version number 1.01 can jump to 1.04 if it was not changed in releases 1.02 and 1.03.

Version numbering

There are rules in Microsoft Dynamics...