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Sunday, 8 November 2015

Cumulative Updates from NAV

As we all know, Microsoft will be releasing new cumulative updates often to fix various bugs in NAV. So, again there's a release of new Cumulative updates in NAV.

In NAV 2016, CU1 - Build 43402 has been released.

In NAV 2015, CU13 Build - 43389 has been released.

In NAV 2013, R2 CU25 Build - 43391 has been released.

In NAV 2013, CU32 Build - 43390 has been released.

Thursday, 5 November 2015

Virtual tables, Temporary tables, System tables

Virtual tables : They're created by the system at runtime. The tables are read-only, information present in these tables cannot be changed.

It do not store physical information in database.

You cannot insert, modify, delete information in virtual tables.

You cannot view the virtual table or run it from table object designer. But, however you can create a page with source table view property as any virtual table name and run it.

Example:

Consider a date virtual table, Its existence is virtual not visible in object designer. But when we create a page with source table view as "Date" table. We can see the values of Date virtual table in role centered page.

fig. below explains the virtual table in detail.

Create a page with a name 'Date virtual list' and give a source table view as "Date".


when you run the above page you can see the following data's inside the "Date table"





Temporary Tables: (Memory-based table)

They're not physical tables in database. All interaction in a table occurs in memory on service tier.

We make tables as temporary tables so that the processing will be fast. There will be no load on SQL server and network service. It is same as normal tables but the information will be lost once the table is closed.

Commit doesn't affect any temporary tables and error doesn't roll back any changes to temporary tables.

fig. below explains in detail on how to make a table as temporary table.




go to any table designer and  Go to view -> C/AL Globals. Choose a variable with record type and select any table.

Shift+f4 or select properties and make temporary table as 'yes' as shown in fig. below.





System Tables:

We can see the system tables in object designer just like normal table. But, system tables are created automatically whenever we create a database.

When you click on File -> Database -> New

The following dialog will appear,


When you click ok you can see System tables. Fig. shows various system tables present in database.





These tables will be present in each and every database to track system related information like checking active session, setting up permission, check user. You can modify, add/delete data in these tables.


System Tables:

They store physical information in database. Created automatically by NAV.
You can customize, read, write, change, insert, delete information contained in them.
* Security Permission
* Permission Set



Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Difference between page actions and control actions

This is a very simple approach but most of the beginners get confused on these things often while designing page.

If we go to any container with cuegroup. We can see in "View" toolbar -  page actions and control actions.

Always, page actions and control actions behave same at the last line( 1st empty line).
However,

Page Actions:

  • page actions can be seen when you navigate through different areas as shown below.



The design of page is simple select any page and go to design -> view -> page actions as shown below.



Control Actions:

  • Control actions can be seen on role-centered page. 
  • Control actions appear only in Cue group as shown in screenshot below.




    You can view the design of control action by selecting the cuegroup and choosing the control actions in -> view -> control actions.

    fig. below would express the design in a better way.


    As shown in the fig. below go to design of Cuegroup page, select the cuegroup, go to view tab and select control actions. You can see the control actions defined here.