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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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Changing jobs

In this chapter we have used some changes to the job functionality in order to make it work for Cronus International Ltd. to sell Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Quantity budgeting

For some companies it is important to know the total number of hours required for a job and the number of hours used rather than the exact amounts.

For this we have created new flow fields in the Job Task table:

The flow field definition is special.

Sum("Job Planning Line"."Quantity (Base)" 
  WHERE (Job No. = FIELD(Job No.),
         Job Task No. = FIELD(Job Task No.),
         Job Task No. = FIELD(FILTER(Totaling)),
         Contract Line = CONST(Yes),
         Planning Date = FIELD(Planning Date Filter)))

The Totaling field is for the lines of type End-Total. The ValueIsFilter property ensures that the field will be interpreted as filter instead of a value.

The result is visible in the Job Task page (1002).

Resource groups

For scheduling...