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Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

You're reading from   Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development Using this tutorial will take you deeper into Dynamics NAV from a developer's viewpoint, and allow you to unlock its full potential. The book covers developing an application from start to finish in logical, illuminating steps.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849689489
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alex Chow Alex Chow
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Dynamics NAV 2013 on Your Computer – For (Almost) Free FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Familiar with Dynamics NAV 2013 3. Exploring the Data Structure and Basic Layout of Dynamics NAV 4. Determining a Task List 5. Finding Similar Functions for Inspiration 6. Creating the Application – Tables 7. Creating the Application – Pages and Reports 8. Extending Our Application 9. Dynamics NAV Modules to Address the Specific Needs of Your Business Additional Resources and Conclusion Index

Adding the Complaint Comments table


The last requirement that we want to work on is to allow the user to add comments. We can allow the users to enter comments directly to the lines area. For simplicity, we can leave it at that. However, doing that will clump the item data with comments. The users may have to differentiate what's a comment and what's an item if it's a long complaint log.

It's fine if you don't care about messy data. However, as we all know, creating reports based on messy data is not good. We're more professional than that; the comments should be in a specific section for the users to type in. The user can still enter brief comments on the line if they wish, but there's an area for the users to enter whatever drama they've encountered to their heart's content.

Using the existing Sales Order structure in Dynamics NAV as our basis, the table we want to model for the comments is the Sales Comment Line table. The table ID is 44.

Similar to the Complaint Line table, the user needs...

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