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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)

Customizing Help

NAV 2017 comes with a Help Server component. When installing NAV 2017, we need to make sure we are also installing the NAV Help Server on a Web server system to which all clients have access. Review the following Developer and IT Pro Help entries along with other entries that relate to modifying and maintaining Help data:

  • Configuring Microsoft Dynamics NAV Help Server
  • Microsoft Dynamics NAV Help Server
  • Upgrading You Existing Help Content

All the NAV Help files are now HTML files, accessible for whatever type of changes are appropriate for the installed system. This includes adding information to existing helps, having multiple language Helps, adding new Helps associated with customized or tailored applications, whatever changes that can make the software work better for the customer.

The process for developing customized Help is similar in many ways to developing customizations to the application...