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Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Fifth Edition

By : Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker
Book Image

Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Fifth Edition

By: Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a full business solution suite, and a complete ERP solution that contains a robust set of development tools to support customization and enhancement. These tools provide greater control over financials and can simplify supply chain, manufacturing, and operations. This book will take you from an introduction to Dynamics NAV and its integrated development tools to being a productive developer in the Dynamics NAV Development Environment. You will find this book very useful if you want to evaluate the product's development capabilities or need to manage Dynamics NAV based projects. It will teach you about the NAV application structure, the C/SIDE development environment, the C/AL language paired with the improved editor, the construction and uses of each object type, and how it all fits together to build universal applications. With this new edition, you will be able to understand how to design and develop using Patterns and new features such as Extensions and Events.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Page Actions

Actions are the menu items of NAV 2017. Action menus can be found in several locations. The primary location is the Ribbon appearing at the top of most pages. Other locations for actions are the Navigation Pane, Role Center, CueGroups, and the Action menu on FactBox page parts.

Action Designer, where actions are defined, is accessed from the Page Designer form by clicking on View and selecting PageActions or ControlActions (Control Actions can only be used for Role Center, CueGroup actions, and for Navigate Page wizard actions). When we click on PageActions or Ctrl Alt F4 for the Fixed Asset page (Page 5600), we will see a list of Ribbon actions, which are shown in the following screenshot as they appear in Action Designer:

The associated Ribbon tabs for the preceding Page Action list are as follows:

  • First, the HOME tab, as you can see in the following screenshot:
  • Second...