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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

Report data overview

Report components, report properties and triggers, request page properties and triggers, and DataItems and their properties and triggers define the data flow and overall logic for processing the data. Another set of components, Data Fields and working storage, are defined as being subordinate to the DataItems (or request page). These are all designed and defined in Visual Studio Code.

Data Fields are defined in this book as the fields that are contained in the DataItems (application tables). Working Storage (also referred to as working data or variables) fields are defined in this book as the data elements that are defined within a report (or other object) for use in that object. The contents of working storage data elements aren't permanently stored in the database. All of these are collectively referred to in the Business Central Help as columns.

These components define the data elements that are made available to Visual Studio as a dataset, which will be used...