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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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Chapter 2: A Sample Application

Let's create a structure of our own in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. To do this we must think of something that is not already available in the standard package but can be built on top of it.

For our example application we will run a squash court. Running a squash court is simple to understand but something we cannot do without changing and expanding the product. In order to define our changes we first need to make a fit-gap analysis.

After this chapter you will have a better understanding of how to reuse the framework of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV application. We will show how to reverse engineer the application and study its functionality by going into the application code.

For this example, some new and changed objects are required. The Appendix describes where to find the objects, and how to install and activate them.

In the first part we will look at how to reverse engineer the standard application to look and learn how it works, and...