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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

By : Rabindra Sah
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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

By: Rabindra Sah

Overview of this book

The book begins by giving you a brief introduction to setting up your NAV environment and shows you how to install and configure it according to your requirements. You will then dive deep into the latest design patterns, network architecture, and topologies. We will show you how you can integrate NAV with the Microsoft platform, and secure your deployment by managing roles and permissions. Moving on, we will explain how to monitor and manage server instances using the Administration tool. We’ll discuss how you can take advantage of the expanded extensibility and connectivity capabilities for a tighter integration with the cloud as well as handheld devices. Then, we’ll show you how you can make use of the PowerBI capabilities that have been built into Dynamics NAV. By the end of the book, you will be confident in developing and administering a Dynamics NAV implementation that will leverage all of the new features.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

NAV extensions


In this section, we will discuss the most basic way to develop NAV extensions. For this, we are going to use the cmdlets to achieve our goal of creating an NAV extension. Let's take a look at some of the prerequisites.

Prerequisites

I will not get into details on the creation of an isolated environment for working on NAV extensions. For more information on how to build your own development environment to start developing Microsoft Dynamics NAV extensions, refer to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt574395(v=nav.90).aspx.

Customization in Dynamics NAV

For the purpose of this example, we are going to introduce some changes to the Development Environment in Microsoft Dynamics NAV:

I have created a menu in the item list that will basically calculate some things in the item table, which will then be shown on the item list page. For the sake of simplicity, I am not going to explain what this function is actually going to do. You can assume any functionality, and we are trying...