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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

The FILTERGROUP function

The FILTERGROUP function can change or retrieve the filter group that is applied to a table. A filter group contains a set of filters that were previously applied to the table by the SETFILTER or SETRANGE functions, or as table properties defined in an object. The FILTERGROUP syntax is as follows:

[CurrentGroupInteger ] := Record.FILTERGROUP ([NewGroupInteger]) 

Using just the Record.FILTERGROUP([NewFilterGroupInteger]) portion sets the active filter group.

Filter groups can also be used to filter query DataItems. All the currently defined filter groups are active and apply in combination (in other words, they are logically ANDed, resulting in a logical intersection of the sets). The only way to eliminate the effect of a filter group is to remove the filters in a group.

The default filter group for Business Central is 0 (zero). Users have access to the filters in this filter group. Other filter groups, numbered up through 6, have assigned Business Central uses...