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Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

You're reading from   Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Build customized business applications with the latest tools in Dynamics 365 Business Central

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789137798
Length 536 pages
Edition 6th Edition
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Christopher D. Studebaker Christopher D. Studebaker
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David Studebaker David Studebaker
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Preface 1. Introduction to Business Central FREE CHAPTER 2. Tables 3. Data Types and Fields 4. Pages - The Interactive Interface 5. Queries and Reports 6. Introduction to AL 7. Intermediate AL 8. Advanced AL Development Tools 9. Successful Conclusions 10. Assessments 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

The GET procedure

GET is the basic data retrieval procedure in AL. GET retrieves a single record based on the primary key only. It has the following syntax:

[BooleanValue :=] Record.GET ( [KeyFieldValue1] [,KeyFieldValue2] ,...) 

The parameter for the GET procedure is the primary key value (or all of the values, if the primary key consists of more than one field).

Assigning the GET procedure result to BooleanValue is optional. If the GET procedure is not successful (no record found) and the statement is not part of an IF statement, the process will terminate with a runtime error. Typically, therefore, the GET procedure is encased in an IF statement, which is structured like so:

IF Customer.GET(NewCustNo) THEN ... 
GET data retrieval is not constrained by filters, except for security filters (see help, How to: Set Security Filters at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh166853(v=nav.90).aspx). If there is a matching record in the table, GET will retrieve it.
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