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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design

By : Marije Brummel
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design

By: Marije Brummel

Overview of this book

Dynamics NAV 2009 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software product from Microsoft that can be used for variety of business needs. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, and intended to assist with finance, manufacturing, Customer Relationship Management, supply chains, analytics, and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises. This book is a focused tutorial on Microsoft Dynamics NAV application development, so you can develop complete applications and not just application outlines. It will show NAV developers how to create different kinds of applications. Different kinds of application are vital in different industries like fashion, automobile, retail, books (education), and other industries. It starts off by introducing the supply chain that you will be using throughout the book. You will implement the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP suite and learn how it is set up and customized for various industries. You will be able to customize Dynamics NAV to suit the different aspects of a business such as Financial Management, Relationship Management, Production, Jobs, Trade, Storage, Logistics, and so on. The book will take you through these Microsoft-designed application features and show you how to customize and extend them safely. Thus, you will be able to create a structure of your own in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface
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Designing a journal

Now it is time to start on the product part of the Squash Application. In this part we will no longer reverse engineer in detail. We will learn how to search in the standard functionality and reuse parts in our own software.

For this part we will look at resources in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Resources are similar to use products as Items but far less complex making it easier to look and learn.

Squash Court master data

Our company has 12 courts that we want to register in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. This master data is comparable to resources so we'll go ahead and copy this functionality. Resources are not attached to umbrella data like the vendor/squash player tables. We need the number series again so we'll add a new number series to our squash setup table.

The Squash Court table should look like this after creation:

Chapter objects

With this chapter some objects are required. A description of how to import these objects can be found...