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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

You're reading from   Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook Extend Dynamics NAV 2016 to win the business world

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460608
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Writing Basic C/AL Code FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced C/AL Development 3. Reporting and Data Analysis 4. .NET Interoperability in C/AL 5. Extending C/AL with COM Components 6. SharePoint Integration 7. Control Add-ins 8. Web Services 9. Events and Extension Packages 10. PowerShell

JavaScript in web, phone, and tablet clients


.NET control add-ins are a powerful tool to customize the user interface of NAV Windows clients, but these controls have a significant limitation - they can be used on role-tailored clients only. NAV clients running on web and mobile devices cannot execute client-side .NET code. As an alternative way to customize UI on devices and web, UI elements can be created in JavaScript. The following recipe demonstrates how to create a custom table control based on popular libraries jQuery and jqWidgets. An advantage of the resulting JavaScript control is that it can be executed on any type of NAV client.

Getting ready

This example uses two third-party libraries that should be downloaded from developers' websites prior to beginning work on the recipe.

Download jQuery library from https://jquery.com/download/.

Download jqWidgets library from http://www.jqwidgets.com/download/.

Note

jqWidjets library is free for personal use, but an appropriate license must be...

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