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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
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Understanding Development Environment


We use Development Environment to develop Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 applications. The Development Environment has a similar look if we take Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 as a reference.

The basic object types are the same. We still have seven basic object types: Table, Page, Report, Codeunit, Query, XMLport, and MenuSuite.

Note

I assume the reader knows the basics of these seven objects, and have not included the descriptions in this section, saving space and your time.

Changing the database size

We can easily change the database size if we have sufficient space available by following these steps:

  1. Go to File | Database | Alter, and then select the Database Files tab.

  2. You will get a window similar to the following screenshot:

  3. Increase the size in the Size (MB) column with a proper number. Then click on the Transaction Log File tab. You will get information related to the log file size of your database. Look at the following screenshot:

  4. Change the value in...