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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

Table relations


We already know that the Sales Line table is related to the Sales Header table. But how do we tell Dynamics NAV about the relationship between these two tables?

The table relation for the fields is defined in the properties of the field. Go ahead and click on the Document No. field in the Sales Line table and find the property called TableRelation:

Click on the AssistEdit button to bring up the Table Relation screen. The AssistEdit button is the button that looks similar to three dots:

Clicking on the AssistEdit button will tell us the table relation that's associated with that field:

From the Table Relation screen, click on the AssistEdit button to bring up Table Filter; this will tell us the relation criteria:

From the previous screenshots, the sentence you would construct would be this: The Document No. field is related to the Sales Header No. field, where the value on Document Type on the Sales Line table has to equal to the Document Type on the Sales Header table.

Make sure...