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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)
9
Successful Conclusions

Lookup-related table data

Once we have a successful test of the report (heading only), we'll move on to laying out the body of the report. As we think through the data, we will want to include a mailing address, such as name, address, a second address, city, country name, and post code, and realize that our table data includes country code, not country name. So, we will look up the country name from the Country/Region table (table 9). Let's take care of that now.

First, we'll add a couple of global variables to our report. One of them will allow us to access the Country/Region table, and the other will act as a holding place for the country name data we get from that table, as shown in the following screenshot:

Each time we read a Radio Show Fan record, we'll look up the country name for that fan and store it in CountryName by entering the following code snippet:

Now, we can add the CountryName variable to the list of data elements attached to the DataItem Radio...