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Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Sixth Edition

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

Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Sixth Edition

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

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a full ERP business solution suite with a robust set of development tools to support customization and enhancement. These tools can be used to tailor Business Central's in-built applications to support complete management functions for finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations. Using a case study approach, this book will introduce you to Dynamics 365 Business Central and Visual Studio Code development tools to help you become a productive Business Central developer. You'll also learn how to evaluate a product's development capabilities and manage Business Central-based development and implementation. You'll explore application structure, the construction of and uses for each object type, and how it all fits together to build apps that meet special business requirements. By the end of this book, you'll understand how to design and develop high-quality software using the Visual Studio Code development environment, the AL language paired with the improved editor, patterns, and features.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
9
Successful Conclusions

Creating some sample data

Even though we haven't added all the bells and whistles to our Radio Show table and pages, we can still use them to enter sample data. The Radio Show List page will be the easiest to use for this.

We will now revert the launch.json file to run the 50100 page, as originally defined, and then publish the extension. In the published window, we will click on New and see the following screen:

Enter the data shown in the following table so that we can see what the page looks like when it contains data. Later on, after we have added more capabilities to our table and pages, some fields will be validated, and some will be either automatically entered or available on a lookup basis. But for now, simply key in each field value. If the data we key in now conflicts with the validations we create later (such as data in referenced tables), we may have to delete this test data and enter new test data later:

No.

Radio Show Type

Description

Host Code

Host Name

Run Time

RS001

TALK

CeCe and Friends

CECE

CeCe Grace

2 hours

RS002

MUSIC

Alec Rocks and Bops

ALEC

Alec Benito

2 hours

RS003

CALL-IN

Ask Cole!

COLE

Cole Henry

2 hours

RS004

CALL-IN

What do you think?

WESLEY

Wesley Ernest

1 hour

RS005

MUSIC

Quiet Times

SASKIA

Saskia Mae

3 hours

RS006

NEWS

World News

DAAN

Daan White

1 hour

RS007

ROCK

Rock Classics

JOSEPH

Josephine Black

2 hours

RS008

TALK

Kristels Babytalks

KRIS

Kristel van Vugt

1 hour

We will use the testability framework for automated testing later in this book. A test codeunit is provided in the downloads, but for now it is recommended to key in the data manually.