Even though many of us are experienced developers, the FILTERGROUP record function isn’t for each of us a well-known or understood concept. Because of this very reason the following question has been for years part of the quiz I start a course day with. So get ready … The default…
Since a couple of years codeunits have a property called Subtype. Selecting a specific value for this property changes the behavior of the codeunit, one of them being an extra property added to functions, i.e. FunctionType (for Test Codeunits and Upgrade Codeunits) which defaults to a specific value depending on the Subtype value (see my…
Once I start to clean up … I can’t stop I guess. So here’s more that still resides in C/SIDE and has become totally obsolete (the following table is an excerpt from Changes in C/AL Behavior and Support from Earlier Versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV): Function Change COMMANDLINE Not supported…
As Mark started to set the pace, I am following up on this with my list of small enhancements that could easily be picked up in the next release. Let’s clean up NAV from obsolete remnants. I just call this post #1 even though I am totally unaware how many…
It is considered a general coding best practice to declare a function as being local. Over time you could see that the NAV Team was also adhering this, even though C/SIDE wasn’t helping a lot on this as new functions would by default be global, i.e. the property Local would…
Pentecost weekend. Finally I have moved somewhat out of the razzle-dazzle of months passed. Glad I succeeded to have planned Friday off, going to the hockey World Cup in The Hague. Sit, simmer (in the sun) and shout. And I don’t care about all those Canadians thinking this is not…
In my previous post in this series I addressed the first sync with coding standards, i.e. removal of redundant record references. This post is about a small one, but nevertheless a sync with coding standards. Have a look at COD400 (see screen shot). It’s as simple as that. As the…
Every time again I am creating a new function in C/SIDE, based on an existing one, I am overjoyed by the fact that it can simply be copied and pasted. Unsurprisingly it was the topic of one of my first blog posts: Live is simple if you know how – C&P…
It’s good practice to program dialogs to inform users on the state or progress of a process. Like in standard NAV when posting a sales invoice: or a journal: But did you ever had to post dozens (or even hundreds or thousands) of sales invoices or journal lines? Or had…
And that brings me to chapter 2. Maybe less exciting, but for sure even more fun than the preceding chapter if you didn’t know about it yet. Saves you a lot of time. One of the things I have always liked about NAV is the open source character of it. OK,…