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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By : Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

By: Roberto Stefanetti, Alex Chow

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics Business Central is a full business solution suite and a complete ERP solution, which contains a robust set of development tools; these tools can help you to gain control over your business and can simplify supply chains, manufacturing, and operations. Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise covers the latest features of Dynamics Business Central and NAV from the end users' and developers' perspectives. It also provides an insight into different tools available for implementation, whether it's a new installation or migrating from the previous version of Dynamics NAV. This book will take you from an introduction to Dynamics NAV 2018 through to exploring all the techniques related to implementation and migration. You will also learn to expand functionalities within your existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation, perform data analysis, and implement free third-party add-ons to your existing installation. As you progress through the book, you will learn to work with third-party add-on tools. In the concluding chapters, you will explore Dynamics 365 Business Central, the new Cloud solution based on the Microsoft NAV platform, and techniques for using Docker and Sandbox to develop applications. By the end of the book, you will have gained a deep understanding of the key components for successful Dynamics NAV implementation for an organization.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Personalization feature versus "In-client" Designer feature in Web client


What are the differences between using the personalization feature and in-client designer feature with Web client? In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS, with sandboxes you have both at hands, while in production you only have personalization. In shorts, there is also personalization feature that could be used if you want to add fields hidden on a page.

"In-client" Designer—you can use the "In-client" Designer feature to personalize your page:

Put the cursor on Customize Fields and select the Add Field to Page option. After a drag and drop operation on a selected field (in this case, the Height field), the field will be added to the Items list page, as shown in the following screenshot:

When you have completed the customization, click on Done to save it:

The customized Item Units of Measure page now has the new fields added, as you can see in the following screenshot:

So, remember that if you want a field from...