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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration

You're reading from  Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847198761
Pages 208 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Toc

Table of Contents (15) Chapters close

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Setting up the Environment for Dynamics NAV 2. Installing Dynamics NAV 3. Integrating Dynamics NAV with the Microsoft Platform 4. Securing Dynamics NAV Applications 5. Backing up and Restoring a Dynamics NAV Database 6. Performance Tuning 7. Setting up Periodic Activities, Stylesheets, and Rapid Implementation Methodology 8. Updating Objects and Virtualization with Dynamics NAV 9. Business Intelligence

Objects in NAV


Each development element in NAV is referred to as an object. There are seven types of objects in NAV.

  • Forms (used only in the Classic client)

  • Pages

  • Tables

  • Code units

  • Data ports

  • XML ports

  • Reports

The user can modify any of these objects provided the license has proper development privileges and object ranges. Based on the business requirements, these objects can be exported, modified, and updated in the system using the import function. The prior versions of NAV did not allow import of objects if the modified range was not included in the user's license. But starting from version 5.1, this restriction is no longer applicable. This implies that the modifications, although not in the license range, can be imported in NAV, the usage of which is still restricted by license ranges.

Updating objects

Updating objects in NAV is quite simple. However, as there is no formal object version management tool or check-in/check-out tool available in NAV, one has to be careful while updating these...

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