Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook电子书

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook

Table of Contents

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Acknowledgements

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. String, Dates, and Other Data Types

Introduction

Retrieving the system date and time

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Retrieving the work date

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Determining the day, month, and year from a given date

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using the date formula to calculate dates

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Converting a value to a formatted string

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating an array

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating an option variable

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Converting a string to another data type

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Manipulating string contents

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

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2. General Development

Introduction

Displaying the progress bar and data in process

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Repeating code using a loop

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using a WHILE loop

Using a REPEAT..UNTIL loop

See also

Checking for conditions using an IF statement

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

The nested IF statement

See also

Using the CASE statement to test multiple conditions

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Rounding decimal values

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Creating functions

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating local or private functions

See also

Passing parameters by reference

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Referencing dynamic tables and fields

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using recursion

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

3. Working with Tables, Records, and Queries

Introduction

Creating a table

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Adding a key to a table

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Retrieving data using the FIND and GET statements

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Advanced filtering

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Adding a FlowField

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating a SumIndexField

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Retrieving data from FlowField and SumIndexField

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using a temporary table

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Storing records to be processed

See also

Retrieving data from other companies

Getting ready…

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using a query to extract data

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating a query to link three tables

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Left outer join

Inner join

Right outer join

Full outer join

Cross join

See also

Working with queries in C/AL

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

4. Designing Pages

Introduction

Creating a page using a wizard

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using multiple options to run the page

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Applying filters on the lookup page

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Updating the subform page from a parent page

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Creating a FactBox page

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating a Queue page

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Creating a Role Center page

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Creating a wizard page

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Displaying a .NET add-in on a page

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Adding a chart to the page

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

5. Report Design

Introduction

Creating an RDLC report

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using multiple options to run a report

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Adding custom filters to the Request Page

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Setting filters when report is loaded

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating reports to process data

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating a link from report to page

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating a link from report to report

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Adding totals on decimal field

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Adding interactive sorting on reports

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Creating a matrix report

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Exporting an RDLC report from viewer

Exporting an RDLC report from C/AL code

See also

6. Diagnosing Code Problems

Introduction

Using the debugger

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Setting breakpoints

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Breakpoint options in the debugger

See also

Handling runtime errors

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using About This Page and About This Report

How to do it...

About This Page

About This Report

How it works...

There's more...

How to get the subform information

See also

Finding errors while using NAS

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

7. Roles and Security

Introduction

Assigning a role to a user

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating a new role

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using the FILTERGROUP function

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using security filters

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Applying security filter modes

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Field-level security

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Assigning permission to use the About This Page function

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

About This Page for subform page

About This Page for report

See also

Killing a user session

How to do it…

How it works...

See also

8. Leveraging Microsoft Office

Introduction

Sending data to Microsoft Word

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Managing stylesheets

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Sending an e-mail from NAV through SMTP

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Sending an HTML-formatted e-mail

Exporting data using the Excel Buffer

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating data connection from Excel to NAV

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Showing data in Excel using PowerPivot

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating an InfoPath form for the NAV data

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating charts with Visio

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

9. OS Interaction

Introduction

Using HYPERLINK to open external files

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Working with environmental variables

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using SHELL to run external applications

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Browsing for a file

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Browsing for a folder

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Checking file and folder access permissions

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Querying the registry

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Zipping folders and files within NAV

How to do it...

How it works...

10. Integration

Introduction

Sharing information through XMLports

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Exporting Sales Invoices in the CSV format

See also

Writing to and reading from a file using the C/AL code

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Creating web services

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Consuming web services

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Sending data through FTP

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Printing a report in a PDF, Excel, and Word format

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Writing your own automation using C#

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using ADO to access outside data

How to do it...

How it works...

11. Working with the SQL Server

Introduction

Creating a basic SQL query

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Understanding SIFT

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using the SQL profiler

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Displaying data from a SQL view in NAV

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Identifying Blocked and Blocking sessions from SQL

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Setting up a backup plan

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Maintaining the transaction logfiles

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

12. NAV Server Administration

Introduction

Creating a NAV Server Instance

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration Shell

See also

Configuring NAS to run Job Queue

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating a user on NAV

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Changing the NAV license

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating a new database

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Testing the NAV database

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Index