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Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

You're reading from   Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Build powerful, robust, and scalable extensions customized for your business requirements

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803236414
Length 466 pages
Edition 7th Edition
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David Studebaker David Studebaker
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Marije Brummel Marije Brummel
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Natalie Karolak Natalie Karolak
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Christopher D. Studebaker Christopher D. Studebaker
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Business Central 2. Chapter 2: Tables FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Data Types and Table Fields 4. Chapter 4: Pages – The Interactive Interface 5. Chapter 5: Reports and Queries 6. Chapter 6: Introduction to AL 7. Chapter 7: Intermediate AL 8. Chapter 8: Extensibility beyond AL 9. Index 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Page actions

Actions are the menu items of Business Central. Action menus can be found in several locations. The primary location is the action bar appearing at the top of most pages. Other locations for actions are the navigation pane, Role Center, cuegroups, and the action menu on FactBox page parts. The following image displays the action bar of the Fixed Asset Card page:

Figure 4.47 – Action bar structure on the Fixed Asset Card

Figure 4.47 – Action bar structure on the Fixed Asset Card

On the right side (1), we find several clickable action menus containing actions and action groups. Where the Related and Reports menus have been added by AL code, the Automate menu is added by the platform. Other available action menu types, though not visible on the Fixed Asset Card page, are Actions and New.

To provide users quick access to the actions they need the most, we can promote actions, which will move them to the promoted actions area (2) on the left side of the action bar. Apart from Home, all promoted...

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