Subscribing to global events

Global events are raised by codeunit 1 ApplicationManagement in response to certain application-wide actions, such as opening and closing the company or opening the user's default role center.

How to do it...

The following recipe will show how to subscribe to the global events OnCompanyOpen and OnCompanyClose to log user activities in each company. Event information will be stored in a separate table.

1. Create a table in NAV table designer. Open the table properties window, from the View menu, select the Properties option, or press Shift + F4 . Update the value of the property DataPerCompany from the default value Yes to No.
2. Create four fields, as shown in the following table:

   Field No.	Field Name	Data Type	Length
   1	Event ID	Integer
   2	Event Type	Option
   3	User ID	Code	50
   4	Company Name	Text	50
   5	Event Date	Date
   6	Event Time	Time

3. Select the field 1 Event ID and open its properties. In the property AutoIncrement, change the...