Chapter 3. Data Types and Fields

 

It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

 
 --J. Willard Marriott
 

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

 
 --Eliel Saarinen

The design of an application should begin at the simplest level, with the design of the data elements. The type of data your development tool supports has a significant effect on our design. Since NAV is designed for financially oriented business applications, NAV data types are financial and business oriented.

In this chapter, we will cover many of the data types ...

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