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Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By : Alex Chow
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Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By: Alex Chow

Overview of this book

So, your company has made the wise decision to use Dynamics NAV as its main business software for all its enterprise resource planning. Dive in and learn the ins and outs of the software from a development standpoint and unlock the software's full potential.The book will walk you through creating an application from start to finish. Once you know how to create a working application that users can access, you will have the knowledge and the resources needed to create other applications based on the tutorials covered in this guide.You will start by obtaining a free trial version of Dynamics NAV and then be introduced to the world of analyzing and deriving user problems into a requirements list. Finally, you will be shown how to use the software to knock out these requirements. You will learn everything you need in order to begin creating your own applications, from translating the user's requirements to creating and modifying your system applications. Use Dynamics NAV's capability to create an application and address the user's needs, while also learning best practices and simple solutions. "Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development" will help you on your way to becoming a great developer!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Creating the Application – Pages and Reports

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." – Aristotle

In the previous chapter, we created tables and set the table relationships for the appropriate fields. Having tables allows us to have a place to store the data, but it's not very user friendly in terms of data entry.

Imagine if you had to insert a record into the header table; you would have to exit the header table and go to the lines to insert the detail. It's possible, but your job would not be much fun. In addition, running the tables will display all the records within the table, so you would need to filter very carefully to see the details of a complaint. Possible, but not fun.

This is where pages come in. When we created our tables, we built some business logic through the table relationships and primary keys. With pages, we present the data from the table in an effective manner so the user can easily get the information...