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Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By : Alex Chow
Book Image

Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By: Alex Chow

Overview of this book

So, your company has made the wise decision to use Dynamics NAV as its main business software for all its enterprise resource planning. Dive in and learn the ins and outs of the software from a development standpoint and unlock the software's full potential.The book will walk you through creating an application from start to finish. Once you know how to create a working application that users can access, you will have the knowledge and the resources needed to create other applications based on the tutorials covered in this guide.You will start by obtaining a free trial version of Dynamics NAV and then be introduced to the world of analyzing and deriving user problems into a requirements list. Finally, you will be shown how to use the software to knock out these requirements. You will learn everything you need in order to begin creating your own applications, from translating the user's requirements to creating and modifying your system applications. Use Dynamics NAV's capability to create an application and address the user's needs, while also learning best practices and simple solutions. "Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development" will help you on your way to becoming a great developer!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Searching your data based on filters


On any of the list-type pages, you will be able to filter a specific value to generate a specific list of data. The filter option is usually located on the top-right corner of the screen.

The area that the first arrow is pointing to in the preceding screenshot is where the user can click to select the field to filter. Any field that's displayed on the page can be selected for filtering.

The area that the second arrow is pointing to is where the user can enter the filtering criteria. The values that are entered can be specific or wild cards. The value is also dependent on the data type, so this means that if you're filtering on the date value, you must enter data in the date format; if you're filtering an integer value, you will not be able to enter decimals. Here's the format that you can enter filters in:

Enter

This includes

10000

Everything equal to 10000

>10000

Greater than 10000

>=10000

Greater than or equal to 10000

10000..

Greater...