Standard application interfaces

We discussed all the available interface technologies for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Let's have a look at how this has been implemented in the standard product.

In this book, we will not go into details for each interface since that would almost require another book. We will just briefly discuss where to find all technologies we discussed in the standard application and indicate where a white paper or website can be found.

Exporting Contacts Microsoft Dynamics NAV allows us to export our contacts both from the classic client as from the Role Tailored Client. As both interfaces have a different object type, we will discuss both the Dataport as well as the XMLPort.

Dataport

The Dataport that handles this is Export Contact (5050). The Dataport has two DataItems; Integer and Contact.

The Integer DataItem is used to export the column headers. The Contact DataItem exports the real information.

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