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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)
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Successful Conclusions

Field properties

The specific properties that can be defined for a field depend on the data type. There is a minimum set of universal properties, which we will review first. Then, we will review the rest of the more frequently used properties, some of which are data dependent and some are not. Check out the remaining properties by using Microsoft Documents.

We can access the properties of a field while viewing the table in Visual Studio Code, highlighting the field, and then clicking inside the curly braces and pressing Ctrl + spacebar. All of the property screenshots in this section were obtained in this way for fields within the Radio Show table. As we review various field properties, you will learn more if you follow along in your Business Central system using Visual Studio Code. Explore different properties and the values they can have. Use Microsoft Docs liberally for additional information and examples.

When a property value is not explicitly set, the default...