Development backups and documentation
As with any system where we can do development work, careful attention to documentation and backing up of our work is very important. C/SIDE provides a variety of techniques for handling each of these tasks.
When we are working within Object Designer, we can back up individual objects of any type or groups of objects by exporting them. These exported object files can be imported in total, selectively in groups, or individually, to recover the original version of one or more objects.
NAV 2015 introduces Windows PowerShell cmdlets that support backing up data to the NAVData files. Complementary cmdlets support getting information or selectively retrieving data from previously created NAVData files. Although these tools promise to be very handy for repetitive development testing, they are challenging (or worse) to use in an environment of changing table or field definitions.
When objects are exported to text files, we can use a standard text editor...
