Intermediate AL

“You need to “listen deeply”—listen past what people say they want to hear to what they need.”

– Jon Meads

“People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.”

– Thomas Mann

In the previous chapter, you learned enough AL to create a basic operational set of code. In this chapter, you will learn about more AL methods and pick up a few more good habits along the way. If you are getting started as a professional Business Central developer, the built-in AL methods represent a significant portion of the knowledge that you will need on a day-to-day basis. If you are a manager or consultant needing to know what Business Central can do for your business or your customer, an understanding of these methods will help you too.

Our goal is to competently manage Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) operations, create moderately complex program logic structures...