Book Image

Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By : Alexander Drogin
Book Image

Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

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. Its integrated development environment enables customizations with minimal disruption to business processes. The book starts explaining the new features of Dynamics NAV along with how to create and modify a simple module. Moving on, you will learn the importance of thinking beyond the boundaries of C/AL development and the possibilities opened by with it. Next, you will get to know how COM can be used to extend the functionalities of Dynamics NAV. You’ll find out how to extend the Dynamics NAV 2016 version using .NET interoperability and will see the steps required to subscribe to .NET events in order to extend Dynamics NAV. Finally, you’ll see the cmdlets available to manage extension packages. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge needed to become more efficient in selecting the extending methods, developing and deploying them to the Dynamics NAV, and practicing the best practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Subscribing to global events


Global events are raised by codeunit 1 ApplicationManagement in response to certain application-wide actions, such as opening and closing the company or opening the user's default role center.

How to do it...

The following recipe will show how to subscribe to the global events OnCompanyOpen and OnCompanyClose to log user activities in each company. Event information will be stored in a separate table.

  1. Create a table in NAV table designer. Open the table properties window, from the View menu, select the Properties option, or press Shift + F4 . Update the value of the property DataPerCompany from the default value Yes to No.

  2. Create four fields, as shown in the following table:

    Field No.

    Field Name

    Data Type

    Length

    1

    Event ID

    Integer

    2

    Event Type

    Option

    3

    User ID

    Code

    50

    4

    Company Name

    Text

    50

    5

    Event Date

    Date

    6

    Event Time

    Time

  3. Select the field 1 Event ID and open its properties. In the property AutoIncrement, change the value...