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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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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

Linking FactBoxes


We've added a FactBox to the Product Complaint page, but how does Dynamics NAV know which customer to display in the FactBox? Well, we have to tell it to display the right customer information!

Go back to Page Designer for the Product Complaint page and put your cursor on the Part type where we defined our FactBox and click on View | Properties:

Similar to the previous chapter where we specified the table relationships, we can define the relationships between the tables at the page level. The property we want to use is the SubPageLink property.

Click on the AssistEdit button and define the form link. This is very similar to defining the field relationship on table fields. The Customer Credit Information FactBox uses the Customer table as its source table. So, we want to relate the Customer table No. field to the Customer No. field on our Product Complaint page:

Click on OK to confirm the table relation ship settings. The property for the Part type for FactBox should be the...

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