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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Third Edition

By : Alex Chow
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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Third Edition

By: Alex Chow

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application used in all kinds of organizations around the world. It provides a great variety of functionality out-of-the-box in different topics such as accounting, sales, purchase processing, logistics, or manufacturing. It also allows companies to grow the application by customizing the solution to meet specific requirements. This book is a hands-on tutorial on working with a real Dynamics NAV implementation. You will learn about the team from your Microsoft Dynamics NAV partner as well as the team within the customer’s company. This book provides an insight into the different tools available to migrate data from the client’s legacy system into Microsoft Dynamics NAV. If you are already live with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, this books talks about upgrades and what to expect from them. We’ll also show you how to implement additional or expanding functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, debug error messages, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation. This book will empower you with all the skills and knowledge you need for a successful implementation.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The posting process


The posting process is the most important process in Dynamics NAV. It commits the data entered by the users into the financial ledgers. There are a few different posting processes; however, they all follow the same structure. The posting process runs through a lot of code from a lot of functions. In fact, many functions are executed many times. This section does not cover the posting process in depth, instead, it shows the overview of the codeunits and how they are structured.

There are several posting routines, one for each journal table and one for each group of documents. All posting routines use more than one codeunit. In Dynamics NAV, you can find more than 80 codeunits with the word post in their description. That's quite a few!

Let's see a couple of examples of the posting's codeunits structure. The first example is posting codeunits for sales documents. In the second example, we will see posting's codeunits for General Journal lines.

The codeunit structure for sales...