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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

Creating a function for our FactBox

For this application, we want our FactBox to display information relating to the specific radio show we are scheduling. The information to be displayed includes the five show segment requirements and the status of fulfillment (counts) of those requirements by the data that's entered into date. The requirements come from the Playlist Header fields: PSAs required, advertisements required, news required, sports required, and weather required. The counts come from summing up data in the Playline Line records for a show. We can use the Playlist Header field's PSA count and ad count for those two counts. These counts can be obtained through the FlowField property definitions we defined earlier for these two fields.

For the other three counts, we must read through the Playlist Line and sum up each of the counts. To accomplish that, we'll create a function that we can call from the FactBox page. Since our new function is local to the Playlist...