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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

Role Center pages

One of the key features of Business Central is the Role Tailored user experience, centered on Role Centers tied to user work roles. The Role Tailored approach provides a single point of entry and access into the system for each user through their assigned Role Center. Each user's Role Center acts as their home page. Each Role Center focuses on the tasks needed to support its users' jobs throughout the day. Primary tasks are front and center, while the ACTIONS ribbon and Search menu provide easy access to other functions, making them only a click or two away.

The standard Business Central distribution from Microsoft contains more than two dozen different Role Center pages, identified for user roles such as Bookkeeper, Sales Manager, Shop Supervisor, Purchasing Agent, and so on (page 9011 is identified as Foundation, rather than as a Role Center, or RC). Some localized Business Central distributions may have additional Role Center pages included. It is critical...