Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 cookbook : make the most of your NAV deployment by extending and customizing it with a variety of expert tools / Alexander Drogin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drogin, Alexander, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft Navision.

Business logistics--Computer programs.

Business logistics.

Industrial management--Computer programs.

Industrial management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] : Packt, 2017.

Biography/History:

Drogin Alexander: Alexander Drogin started working with Navision Attain version 3. 01 in 2002 as a software developer at a consulting company. After seven years of development, he shifted his focus to end-user support. In 2012, he joined the Microsoft Russia development team as a software engineer in testing, and worked on NAV test automation and sustained engineering tasks. He currently works as a NAV technical architect for a Microsoft partner in Malta.

Summary:

Make the most of your NAV deployment by extending and customizing it with a variety of expert tools About This Book - Extend Dynamics in a cost-effective manner by using tools that are ready at your disposal - Solve common business problems with the valuable features and flexibility of Dynamics NAV - Follow practical and easy-to-grasp examples, illustrations, and coding to make the most out of Dynamics NAV in your organisation Who This Book Is For This book is for Dynamics NAV developers and administrators who have a good knowledge level and understanding of Dynamics NAV application development and administration. What You Will Learn - Develop a module in Dynamics NAV using C/AL - Build relationships with COM technologies - Develop and integrate COM with Dynamics NAV 2016 - Call the framework members from C/AL - Develop an event in the .NET framework and see how to subscribe to it using C/AL - Automate the deployment into Dynamics NAV - Develop Windows Client Control add-Ins - Deploy your resource automatically from Visual Studio - Install and Configure Windows Client Control add-Ins - Integrate Dynamics NAV with Sharepoint In Detail Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suite for organizations. The system offers specialized functionality for manufacturing, distribution, government, retail, and other industries. Its integrated development environment enables customizations with minimal disruption to business processes. The book starts explaining the new features of Dynamics NAV along with how to create and modify a simple module. Moving on, you will learn the importance of thinking beyond the boundaries of C/AL development and the possibilities opened by with it. Next, you will get to know how COM can be used to extend the functionalities of Dynamics NAV. You'll find out how to extend the Dynamics NAV 2016 version using .NET interoperability and will see the steps required to subscribe to .NET events in order to extend Dynamics NAV. Finally, you'll see the cmdlets available to manage extension packages. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge needed to become more efficient in selecting the extending methods, developing and deploying them to the Dynamics NAV, and practicing the best practices. Style and approach The book follows a practical recipe-based approach focusing on real-world scenarios and giving you all the information you need to build a strong Dynamics NAV implementation.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Writing Basic C/AL Code

Introduction

Installing NAV Development Environment

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Application object triggers

NAV Development Environment - C/SIDE

Compiling objects and error handling

Importing and exporting application objects

Basic C/AL programming

Accessing the database in C/AL

Configuring NAV Server

Creating a NAV user account

Generating a self-signed certificate

Obtaining the certificate thumbprint

Changing the server configuration

Configuring web server

There's more…

See also

Chapter 2: Advanced C/AL Development

Creating custom tables

Understanding database triggers

Implementing a user interface with pages

Linking datasources in subpages

Working with page triggers

Presenting related data in FactBoxes

Designing reusable code

Accessing temporary tables

Role-Tailored client and role centers

Assigning role centers to user profiles

Simplifying data access with queries.

How to do it…

Improving performance with indexes

Linking datasources with advanced queries

Exchanging data with XMLPort objects

Designing the user menu

Referencing records and fields via RecordRef and FieldRef

Working with single instance codeunits

Running tasks in background sessions

Chapter 3: Reporting and Data Analysis

Designing reports in Visual Studio

Developing Word layout for RDLC reports

Writing C/AL code in a report

Designing the report request page

Writing RDLC code in a report

Using built-in expressions in the report layout designer

Including user interaction in reports

Updating NAV data with the Excel add-in

Retrieving data from NAV with Power Query

Creating pivot tables with Power Query

Analyzing data with Power BI

Data hierarchies in Power BI reports

Statistical data analysis in Power BI with R

Sales forecast in Power BI with R

How it works….

Designing server-side reports in SQL Server Reporting Studio

Chapter 4: .NET Interoperability in C/AL

Using .NET assemblies in C/AL

Understanding static classes and methods

Developing server-side extensions

Developing client-side extensions

Working with generics in C/AL

Working with interfaces

Accessing collections with the FOREACH statement

Working with .NET strings and arrays in C/AL

Invoking .NET methods via reflection

Handling exceptions with try functions

Handling .Net events in C/AL

Developing your own .NET class

Starting processes in separate threads

Chapter 5: Extending C/AL with COM Components

Using COM type libraries in C/AL

Mapping COM datatypes to C/AL

Disposing of COM objects

Working with the Variant datatype

Sending data to the Excel automation server

How to do it….

Creating a Word document using automation objects

Creating and registering a COM component that can be used in NAV

Chapter 6: SharePoint Integration

Creating a developer SharePoint site

How to do it….

Developing NAV apps for SharePoint

Embedding NAV page objects in site pages

Publishing NAV reports in SharePoint

Deploying applications on SharePoint

Configuring user permissions

Chapter 7: Control Add-ins

Developing a control add-in

Signing the control add-in assembly

Registering and embedding a control add-in

JavaScript in web, phone, and tablet clients

Installing and using JavaScript control add-ins

Sending events from add-ins to NAV server

Linking add-ins with the database

Exchanging data with add-ins

Chapter 8: Web Services

Publishing a SOAP web service

Calling object methods in SOAP web services

Exposing and consuming OData web services

Querying NAV OData web services with LINQ

Updating NAV data through web services

Securing access to web services

Consuming the NAV web service from Java

Chapter 9: Events and Extension Packages

Subscribing to business and integration events

Subscribing to global events

Using database trigger events

Extending UI with page trigger events

Creating custom events

Subscribing to events in runtime

Developing an extension

Installing an extension

Chapter 10: PowerShell

Managing the database

Managing users and user permissions

Managing companies

Administering NAV services with PowerShell

Handling application objects

Merging application objects

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 2, 2017).

ISBN:

9781786468512

1786468514