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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

Copy Document Pattern

Entering a Document with all the options and multiple lines can be a lot of work, and sometimes similar Documents already exist in the system. This is often a reverse action of the Document History Pattern, but we can also copy the outstanding documents.

An explanation on the use of Copy Document Pattern is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTiwroXwW_0&list=PLhZ3P-LY7CqmVszuvtJLujFyHpsVN0U_w&index=17.

An example of this is creating a Credit Memo from a Posted Sales Invoice where all the information is copied, including the Customer, Items, and the correct posting dates.

Technical description

The Copy Document Pattern objects are a Processing Only Report that calls into an internal function called the Codeunit. The Report object needs to understand the valid options to copy the data around. We can, for example, copy a Posted Sales Shipment to a Sales Order, but we cannot copy a Sales Order to a Posted Sales Invoice.

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