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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

Table triggers

A table trigger is a C/AL function that is called by the NAV platform in response to certain events in the table, such as inserting or modifying a record, or entering a value in a table field. The key difference between a common C/AL function and a table trigger is that the latter cannot be called explicitly in application code; it is either initiated by user actions or called implicitly when other C/AL functions perform data manipulations on the table.

Then, we will implement several examples of table triggers bound to different actions on a table. The first example is the OnDelete trigger, invoked when a table record is being deleted. This trigger will delete all contract lines when the contract is deleted.

Open the 50500 Lease Contract Header table, in table designer and find the OnDelete trigger declaration. It has already been generated by the designer, so...

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