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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

Page triggers

The following screenshot shows page triggers. The Help section's Page and Action Triggers provides good general guidance to the events that cause each page trigger to fire. Note that the OnQueryClosePage trigger isn't related to any query object action:

In general, according to best practices, we should minimize the AL code placed in page triggers, putting code in a table or field trigger or calling a codeunit library function instead. However, many standard pages include a modest amount of code supporting page-specific filter or display functions. When we develop a new page, it's always a good idea to look for similar pages in the standard product and be guided by how those pages operate internally. Sometimes, special display requirements result in complex code being required within a page. It is important that the code in a page be used only to manage the data display, not for data modification.

To execute AL code in pages, you can also use events. Each...