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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016

You're reading from   Mastering Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 The compilation of best skillset to harness Microsoft Dynamics NAV for Administrators, Consultants, and Developers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464309
Length 450 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rabindra Sah Rabindra Sah
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Preface 1. Microsoft Dynamics NAV Installation FREE CHAPTER 2. Upgraded Features and Configuration in Dynamics NAV 2016 3. The C/AL and VB Programming 4. Testing and Debugging 5. Design and Development Considerations 6. Version Control and Code Management 7. Tuning Up the NAV System 8. Security in Dynamics NAV 2016 9. Upgrade and Migration 10. Interfacing NAV with Other Applications 11. Extending Dynamics NAV 2016 12. The Future of NAV

Triggers

In Computer Science, a trigger is a method that commences an action when an event which is related to it occurs. In general, the events resemble key-press events, mouse events, and automatic events from a timer. But here, we are dealing with events that are directly or indirectly relevant to the database fetch or push operations like insert, delete, modify, and so on. There are the following three kinds of triggers in Microsoft Dynamics NAV:

  • Documentation triggers
  • Event triggers
  • Function triggers

Documentation triggers

These are actually not triggers; these are used to write documentation for a particular object. Many developers use this space to document their modifications to standard objects. Every object has a documentation trigger. The code written in this trigger is eliminated in the section of code optimization of the compiler, and no code written in this section actually runs:

Documentation triggers

Event triggers

Event triggers are the most commonly used triggers. These triggers take action...

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