Page Controls

Controls on pages serve a variety of purposes. Some controls display information on pages. This can be data from the database, static material, pictures, or the results of a C/AL expression. Container controls can contain other controls. Group controls make it easy for the developer to handle a set of contained controls as a group. A FastTabs control also makes it easy for the user to consider a set of controls as a group. The user can make all the controls on a FastTab visible or invisible by expanding or collapsing the FastTab. The user also has the option to show or not to show a particular FastTab as a part of the page customizing capability. The Help sections Pages Overview and How to: Create a Page provide good background guidance on the organization of controls within page types for NAV 2013.

The following screenshot from the Page Designer shows all the data controls on the Fixed Asset Card (Page 5600). Expanded is a + or – indicating if the section is expanded or not...