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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide Get up and running with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612769
Length 210 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexander Drogin Alexander Drogin
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with the NAV Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Codeunits - Structuring C/AL Code 3. Tables - Creating Data Structure 4. Designing User Interface 5. Exchanging Data with XML Ports 6. NAV Event Model 7. Presenting Data in Reports 8. Debugging Your Code 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Designing User Interface

This chapter gives a more in-depth look at the topic briefly started in Chapter 3, Tables - Creating Data Structure. Here, we will delve deeper into the design of the user interface. The central element of the Dynamics NAV UI is a page, so the chapter is mostly dedicated to different types of pages and their applications. We will see how to create a simple page with several mouse clicks with a page wizard, and learn to build more complex pages with embedded subpages.

Another topic covered in this chapter is C/AL development applied to the UI: how we can enrich pages with C/AL code.

Finally, we will create navigation elements that assist users in finding the required application components: a role center page and a menu suite.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Page creation wizard
  • Card and list pages
  • Writing C/AL code in pages
  • ListPart...
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