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Learning Dynamics NAV Patterns

You're reading from   Learning Dynamics NAV Patterns Create solutions that are easy to maintain, are quick to upgrade, and follow proven concepts and design

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785284199
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marije Brummel Marije Brummel
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Introducing Dynamics NAV Patterns and Software Architecture 2. Chapter 2: Architectural Patterns FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Design Patterns 4. Chapter 4: Building an Example Application Using Patterns 5. Chapter 5: Coding Best Practices 6. Chapter 6: Anti-patterns and Handling Legacy Code 7. Chapter 7: Building Solutions Using Patterns 8. Thank you for buying Learning Dynamics NAV Patterns

Model-View ViewModel Pattern

As explained in Chapter 1, Introduction to Patterns and Software Architecture, the Page objects are bound to the Table objects. The way the data is displayed to the user is the way we store it in the SQL Server database.

This is not always what we want. In some cases, we want to display the information in a different, way than how we store it in the database.

For this reason, each Page has the property SourceTableTemporary, and Reports have the Temporary property since Microsoft Dynamics NAV version 2015.

Technical description

The basics for this Pattern is the Temporary Dataset, which is a table that contains the field layout that we want to display to the user. This needs to have a matching Primary key, which is often Rules Pattern or Entry Pattern.

When this is set and we start up the Page or Report, we won't see any data. We need to load it into memory first.

This can be achieved by calling a function in either the OnOpenPage...

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