Chapter 8. Updating Objects and Virtualization with Dynamics NAV
Dynamics NAV has long been known as a system with rich out-of-the-box capabilities and high flexibility. Although it offers a rich inherent feature set, it is also one of the most flexible systems available in the market today. Flexibility can be attained by modifying an existing set of objects or adding new objects in NAV. Objects in NAV comprise tables, reports, code units, forms, pages, and dataports and XML ports. This chapter speaks about the procedures for changing and updating these objects.
The second part of the chapter discusses some common batch jobs, their setups and procedures.
Objects in NAV
Each development element in NAV is referred to as an object. There are seven types of objects in NAV.
Forms (used only in the Classic client)
Pages
Tables
Code units
Data ports
XML ports
Reports
The user can modify any of these objects provided the license has proper development privileges and object ranges. Based on the business requirements...
