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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

Menu suite

In all code examples in this book so far, whenever we wanted to execute an object, we just ran it directly from the object designer. While this method works perfectly fine for an application developer, this is apparently not the way users are supposed to open pages and execute actions. Objects executed from the user interface must be arranged in the user menu with MenuSuite objects.

User menu design has a layered structure; several menu suites can exist in the system, each one consolidating a set of objects on its own menu design level. The basic application menu structure provided by Microsoft is described in the MenuSuite object 1010, Dept - MBS. Any localized version of NAV also includes a country-level menu in the Dept - Country menu suite, and in some cases a region-level Dept - Region.

Up to ten add-on menus can co-exist in one application; these are developed...

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