Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: A Short Tour through NAV 2009 -- NAV 2009: An ERP system -- Financial Management -- Manufacturing -- Supply Chain Management (SCM) -- Business intelligence and reporting -- Relationship Management (RM) -- Human Resource management -- Project management -- Significant changes in NAV 2009 -- Two-tier versus three-tier -- Role Tailored Client -- SSRS-compatible report viewer -- Web services -- NAV 2009: A set of building blocks and development tools -- NAV object types -- The C/SIDE Integrated Development Environment -- Object Designer tool icons -- NAV object and system elements -- NAV functional terminology -- User interfaces -- An introduction to development -- Our scenario for development exercises -- Getting started with application design -- Application tables -- Designing a simple table -- Creating a simple table -- Field numbering -- Pages/Forms -- Keyboard shortcuts -- Run a table -- Reports -- Creating a List format report -- Codeunits -- MenuSuites -- Dataports -- XMLports -- Integration tools -- Backups and documentation -- Summary -- Review questions -- Chapter 2: Tables -- Overview of tables -- Components of a table -- Table naming -- Table numbering -- Table properties -- Table triggers -- Keys -- SumIndexFields -- Field Groups -- Expanding our sample application -- Creating and modifying tables -- Assigning a TableRelation property -- Creating Forms for testing -- Adding Secondary keys -- Adding some activity-tracking tables -- New tables -- Keys and SumIndexFields in our examples -- Types of tables -- Wholly modifiable tables -- Master -- Journal -- Template -- Ledger -- Reference -- Register -- Posted Document -- Setup -- Temporary -- Content-modifiable tables -- System -- Read-Only tables -- Virtual -- Summary.

Review questions -- Chapter 3: Data Types and Fields for Data Storage and Processing -- Basic definitions -- Fields -- Field properties -- Field numbering -- Changing the data type of a field -- Field triggers -- Data structure examples -- Variable naming -- Data types -- Fundamental data types -- Numeric data -- String data -- Date/Time data -- Complex data types -- Data structure -- Objects -- Automation -- Input/Output -- DateFormula -- References and other -- Data type usage -- FieldClass property options -- Filtering -- Defining filter syntax and values -- Filtering on equality and inequality -- Filtering by ranges -- Filtering with Boolean operators -- Filtering with wildcards -- Filtering with combinations -- Experimenting with filters -- Accessing filter controls -- Summary -- Review questions -- Chapter 4: Pages-Tools for Data Display -- What is a page? -- Controls -- Bound and unbound -- Pages-a stroll through the gallery -- A sample RoleTailored Client page -- Types of pages -- List page -- Card page -- Document page -- FastTab -- List+ page -- Journal/Worksheet page -- Confirmation (Dialog) page -- Request page -- Navigate page -- Departments page -- Role Center page -- Page parts -- FactBoxes -- Page names -- Accessing the Page Designer -- What makes up a page? -- Page properties -- Types of page controls -- Inheritance -- Page control details -- Container controls -- Group controls -- Field controls -- Using page controls in a Card page -- Page Part controls -- Creating a Card Part FactBox -- Page Control triggers -- Adding more List pages to our ICAN application -- Creating a simple list page -- Creating related List and Card pages -- Learning more about pages -- UX (User Experience) Guidelines -- Creative plagiarism -- Experimenting with page controls and control properties -- Help searching -- Experimentation -- Testing -- Design.

Summary -- Review questions -- Chapter 5: Chapter 5: Reports -- What is a report? -- Two NAV report designers -- A hybrid report designer -- NAV report-look and feel -- NAV report types -- Report types summarized -- Report naming -- Report components overview -- The components of a report description -- Report Data Flow -- The elements of a report -- Report properties -- Report triggers -- Data Items -- Data item properties -- Data item triggers -- Data item Sections -- Creating RTC reports via the Classic Report Wizard -- Learn by experimentation -- Runtime formatting -- Inheritance -- Other ways to create RTC reports -- Modify an existing RTC report -- The Visual Studio Report Designer layout screen -- Report Items -- Make the report changes -- Request Page -- Processing-Only reports -- Creating a report from scratch -- Creative report plagiarism -- Summary -- Review questions -- Chapter 6: Introduction to C/SIDE and C/AL -- Essential navigation -- Object Designer -- Starting a new object -- Some designer navigation pointers -- Exporting objects -- Importing objects -- Text objects -- Object number licensing -- Some useful practices -- Changing data definitions -- Saving and compiling -- Some C/AL naming conventions -- Variables -- Global identifiers -- Local identifiers -- Special working storage variables -- A definition of programming in C/SIDE -- Functions -- Basic C/AL syntax -- Assignment and punctuation -- Wildcards -- Expressions -- Operators -- Some basic C/AL -- MESSAGE, ERROR, CONFIRM, and STRMENU functions -- MESSAGE function -- ERROR function -- CONFIRM function -- STRMENU function -- SETCURRENTKEY function -- SETRANGE function -- GET function -- FIND -- FIND ([Which]) options and the SQL Server alternates -- BEGIN-END compound statement -- IF-THEN-ELSE statement -- Indenting code -- Some simple coding modifications.

Adding a validation to a table -- Adding code to enhance a report -- Summary -- Review questions -- Chapter 7: Intermediate C/AL -- Some C/AL development tools -- C/AL Symbol Menu -- Internal documentation -- Computation and Validation utility functions -- TESTFIELD -- FIELDERROR -- VALIDATE -- ROUND -- TODAY, TIME, and CURRENTDATETIME functions -- WORKDATE function -- Data conversion functions -- FORMAT function -- EVALUATE function -- DATE functions -- DATE2DMY function -- DATE2DWY function -- MY2DATE and DWY2DATE functions -- CALCDATE function -- FlowField-SumIndexField functions -- CALCFIELDS function -- CALCSUMS function -- CALCFIELDS and CALCSUMS comparison -- Flow control -- REPEAT-UNTIL control structure -- WHILE-DO control structure -- CASE-ELSE statement -- WITH-DO statement -- QUIT, BREAK, EXIT, SKIP, and SHOWOUTPUT functions -- QUIT function -- BREAK function -- EXIT function -- SKIP function -- SHOWOUTPUT function -- Input and Output functions -- NEXT function with FIND or FINDSET -- INSERT function -- MODIFY function -- Rec and xRec -- DELETE function -- MODIFYALL function -- DELETEALL function -- Filtering -- SETRANGE function -- SETFILTER function -- COPYFILTER and COPYFILTERS functions -- GETFILTER and GETFILTERS functions -- MARK function -- CLEARMARKS function -- MARKEDONLY function -- RESET function -- Filter Groups -- InterObject communication -- Communication via data -- Communication through function parameters -- Communication via object calls -- Using the new knowledge -- A development challenge for you -- Creating more ICAN test data -- Developing the Donor Recognition Status report -- Summary -- Review questions -- Chapter 8: Advanced NAV Development Tools -- NAV process flow -- Data preparation -- Transactions entry -- Testing and Posting the Journal batch -- Accessing the data -- Ongoing maintenance -- Role Center pages.

Role Center structure -- Role Center activities page -- Cue Groups and Cues -- Cue source table -- Cue Group Actions -- System Part -- Page Part -- Navigation Pane and Action Menus -- Departments -- MenuSuite levels -- MenuSuite structure -- MenuSuite development -- MenuSuite transformation -- Configuration and personalization -- Creating new C/AL routines -- Callable functions -- Codeunit - 358 Date Filter-Calc -- Codeunit 359 - Period Form Management -- Codeunit 365 - Format Address -- Codeunit 396 - NoSeriesManagement -- Codeunit 397 - Mail -- Codeunit 408 - Dimension Management -- Codeunit 412 - Common Dialog Management -- Sampling of function models to review -- Codeunit 228 - Test Report-Print -- Codeunit 229 - print documents -- Other objects to review -- Management codeunits -- Documenting modifications -- Multi-language system -- Multi-currency system -- Code analysis and debugging tools -- Developer's Toolkit -- Relations to Tables -- Relations from Objects -- Source Access -- Where Used -- Trying it out -- Working in exported text code -- Using Navigate -- Testing with Navigate -- The C/SIDE Debugger -- The C/SIDE Code Coverage tool -- Client Monitor -- Debugging NAV in Visual Studio -- Dialog function debugging techniques -- Debugging with MESSAGE -- Debugging with CONFIRM -- Debugging with DIALOG -- Debugging with text output -- Debugging with ERROR -- C/SIDE test driven development -- Summary -- Review questions -- Chapter 9: Extend, Integrate, and Design-into the Future -- Interfaces -- XMLports -- XMLport components -- XMLport properties -- XMLport triggers -- XMLport data lines -- XMLport line properties -- Element or attribute -- XMLport line triggers -- XMLport Request Page -- Advanced interface tools -- Automation Controller -- NAV Communication Component -- Linked Server Data Sources -- C/OCX -- C/FRONT.

NAV Application Server (NAS).