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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

WDTU page enhancement – part 1

Before we move on to learn about controls and actions, let's do some basic enhancement work on our WDTU Radio Show application. In Chapter 1, Introduction to Business Central, in the Getting started with application design section, we created several minimal pages, and later added new fields to our Radio Show master table (table 50100). We'll now enhance the Radio Show's list and card page to include those added fields.

Because our previous page development work resulted in simple pages, we have the opportunity to decide whether we want to start with a new page snippet and replace our original pages or use the page designer to modify the original pages. If we had done any significant work on these pages previously in the page designer, the choice to go right to the page designer would be easy. Let's do a quick evaluation to help us to make our decision. First, let's take a look at the existing Radio Show List page:

We want...