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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

You're reading from   Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook Extend Dynamics NAV 2016 to win the business world

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460608
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexander Drogin Alexander Drogin
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Preface 1. Writing Basic C/AL Code FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced C/AL Development 3. Reporting and Data Analysis 4. .NET Interoperability in C/AL 5. Extending C/AL with COM Components 6. SharePoint Integration 7. Control Add-ins 8. Web Services 9. Events and Extension Packages 10. PowerShell

Understanding database triggers

Data in the database is constantly changed - records are inserted, updated, deleted. Almost any user action results in data modification, and all modifications of data run application triggers.

How to do it...

In this recipe we will learn how to use some of the most important and frequently used table triggers to control data flow.

  1. Open table 50010 Item Certificate in object designer. Click C/AL Code in the View menu or press F9 to open table code. Open C/AL Globals and create two functions, DeleteCertificateActions and UpdateItemOnActions.
  2. Position cursor in the DeleteCertificateActions variable and declare a local record variable ItemCertificateAction:

    Name

    DataType

    Subtype

    ItemCertificateAction

    Record

    Item Certificate Action

  3. This is a simple function with lines of code in it:
            ItemCertificateAction.SETRANGE("Certificate No.","No."); 
            ItemCertificateAction.DELETEALL; 
    
  4. Move to the function UpdateItemOnActions...
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