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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
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Preface

Triggers


In Computer Science, a trigger is a method that commences an action when an event which is related to it occurs. In general, the events resemble key-press events, mouse events, and automatic events from a timer. But here, we are dealing with events that are directly or indirectly relevant to the database fetch or push operations like insert, delete, modify, and so on. There are the following three kinds of triggers in Microsoft Dynamics NAV:

  • Documentation triggers

  • Event triggers

  • Function triggers

Documentation triggers

These are actually not triggers; these are used to write documentation for a particular object. Many developers use this space to document their modifications to standard objects. Every object has a documentation trigger. The code written in this trigger is eliminated in the section of code optimization of the compiler, and no code written in this section actually runs:

Event triggers

Event triggers are the most commonly used triggers. These triggers take action when any...