Like probably many of us, every now and then I sit down to search and browse through some of the old postings on dynamicsuser.net or mibuso.com. To learn new things, to get inspiration for a new blog post or just to see what’s going on. That’s what I did this snowy Sunday…
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…
I still recall, when I started using Role Tailored Client (RTC), that one of the things of that really surprised me was the error messages that appeared in the yellow ribbon. Well, it was actually not the message as such, or the yellow ribbon, it was more the fact that the…
Both a Dataport and XMLport object can be used to import data into Dynamics NAV. And as with user input and code entered data we might need to validate the data imported to impose the necessary business logic. This can be achieved in two ways: either by programming a VALIDATE after the…
If you read Validating Data #3: Cascading VALIDATEs you know by now that a VALIDATE call comes with a price. So where possible the programmer should diminish the number of VALIDATE calls. Or “… to avoid the validate statement when populating records …”, as Marije Brummel puts it in one…
Joining dynamicsuser.net recently I started writing my blogs to share my NAV experiences with you. So I thought I could spend a couple of posts on some of NAV’s undocumented features. Greenhorn-me just sad down and wrote, not taking much time to investigate the load of posts on dynamicsuser.net. It was not long…
In my post Validating Data #2: Using VALIDATE I addressed the issue of how to validate code entered data by using the field method VALIDATE. In my notes, however, I mentioned that a VALIDATE call comes with a price. This is what this post is about and how to make the cost…
Writing my blog post How-to: Search a Field in Table Designer I fully forgotten to mention that in a similar way you can search in C/AL Globals and C/AL Locals. Be it Variables: .. or Functions: … or Parameters: … or Text Constants – although in general this will not…
Whereas validation of user input is one side of the medal, the other is validation of code entered data, the subject of this blog post. Code Entered Data Just as any user input code entered data should be validated before it is allowed to be recorded in the database. A…
Having seen a couple of posts on data validation coming by I decided to tackle this issue in a couple of blogs of which this one is the first. Just to straighten out me thoughts and knowledge on this, and share it with you. User Input Like in any other…