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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

Creating the list page


Looking through the RTC, you'll notice that when you click on Sales Order, the first thing that appears is the list of the orders instead of the document page. From there, you can click on New to create a new order or Edit to edit an order and only then would the document page be displayed.

To look at how the list page is created, we need to find the page ID in the Object Designer. Using the skills that we've gained from Chapter 5, Finding Similar Functions for Inspiration, we will use the About This Page screen to find the page ID.

Go back to the Object Designer and bring up the Page - Properties window for page 9305. Verify the PageType and SourceTable properties so that we can model it to create the Product Complaints list page.

Close the Page Designer for 9305. We now know that we need to create a list page with the Source table as the header. From the Object Designer, click on New to create a new page. Enter Complaint Header, table 50000, and use the wizard to create...