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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

Adding field validation to a table

In Chapter 4, Pages The Interactive Interface, we created the 50110 "Radio Show Fan" table. We've decided that we want to be able to use this list for promotional activities, such as having drawings for concert tickets. Of course, we want to send the tickets to the winners at their mailing addresses. We didn't include these fields originally in our table design, so we must add them now.

To keep our design consistent with the standard product, we will model these fields after the equivalent ones in the 18 - Customer table. Our updated table, 50110, will look as follows:

Part of modeling our 50110 "Radio Show Fan" table fields on those in the 18 - Customer table is faithfully copying the applicable properties. For example, the TableRelation property for the Post Code field in table 18 contains the following lines of code, which we should include for the Post Code field in table...