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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By : Alexander Drogin
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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
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Preface

Creating custom events


The capabilities of custom application code are not limited by event subscription. Customized objects can raise predefined business or integration events, and publish new custom events.

How to do it...

The following recipe explains how to create a new event in codeunit 21 Item Jnl.-Check Line. that will fire on journal line verification, before any other line validation code.

  1. In the NAV development environment, select the codeunit 21 Item Jnl.-Check Line and click the Design button to access its C/AL code.

  2. Open the C/AL Globals window, tab to Functions and insert a new function in the list - OnBeforeCheckItemJnlLine.

  3. Click the Locals button located in the right panel. This will open the list of function parameters. Add one parameter:

    Var

    Name

    DataType

    Subtype

    True

    ItemJnlLine

    Record

    Item Journal Line

  4. Close the C/AL Locals to return to the list of functions, then open the properties of the function OnBeforeCheckItemJnlLine.

  5. In the field Event, choose the option...