The Supplemental and Subsidiary Pattern
For Microsoft Dynamics NAV to run properly, we also require tables that contain more records to allow multiple values to be used in various scenarios. These values are almost as static as the Singleton tables, although the new records can be created during the lifecycle of the application.
The pattern for these tables is Supplemental & Subsidiary.
Technical description
The Supplemental & Subsidiary table has a single field Primary Key that is typically called Code; it has the Data type code, and has a length of 10 characters. Values in the Primary Key are manually determined by the application administrators. Normal users of the system have read-only access to these tables.
When the attributes in the table relate to another entity, the reference to this entity can be added as a second primary key.
The referenced entity is typically of the Master Data pattern. We will discuss Master Data later in this chapter.
The other...
