Summary
The first step in creating any application is to start with the tables. Once the initial tables are defined, we can start doing our pages and reports. In addition, defining what data you want to keep track of is the most important step in any application development.
In this chapter, we've created the Complaint Header
, Complaint Line
, and Complaint Comment
tables.
Note that the table you have created is not set in stone. We can always go back to make changes to the table structure if the requirements change. You'll notice that we have not put in any coding in the tables. Right now, you've just created a holding place for the data with no internal business logic, other than setting table relations. In most applications that you'll encounter, that's the majority of the work.
As a general rule for developers starting out in Dynamics NAV, always look for an existing application that does a similar thing to what you're trying to do. There's really not many applications you want to create...