Creating your own Journal and Entry
When creating a Journal we need a set of Tables, Pages, Codeunits and Reports. There are quite a few Journals in Microsoft Dynamics NAV with different levels of complexity, but they all have the same basic structure.
Creating a brand new Journal is not easily documented step-by-step, and would cost a considerable page count in this book. For most architects, creating a new journal is not a frequent task. Even in the standard Dynamics NAV application, new journals are added only in every few big releases.
When creating a new Journal in Dynamics NAV there is a trick that you can use, but it requires basic knowledge of the syntax that is used for external object text files.
In Microsoft Dynamics NAV the Resource Journal & Entry structure is very isolated and close to the Pattern definition that we use. We can mark the following objects in the object designer as illustrated in the next screenshot, and export them as a text file:
Using any text editor...
