A closer look at the requirements
Almost everything you see when you start up Dynamics NAV resides in what we NAV people call objects. To access these objects, go ahead and run the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Environment and then start up the Object Designer by clicking on Tools | Object Designer if it's not already open. As described in Chapter 2, Getting Familiar with Dynamics NAV, there are seven types of programming objects in Dynamics NAV. In this section, we will be focusing on tables. Without tables, there wouldn't be a place to hold our data.
When creating any new functions or modules in NAV, we always start from the tables. The table is the foundation, as all pages and reports that the users will interact with will be based on a table or multiple tables.
In addition, most of the business validation and rules will be programmed in tables. Why? One of the main reasons is if you put the validation and business rules on the pages, then you would need to replicate that code across...
