Designing User Interface

This chapter gives a more in-depth look at the topic briefly started in Chapter 3, Tables - Creating Data Structure. Here, we will delve deeper into the design of the user interface. The central element of the Dynamics NAV UI is a page, so the chapter is mostly dedicated to different types of pages and their applications. We will see how to create a simple page with several mouse clicks with a page wizard, and learn to build more complex pages with embedded subpages.

Another topic covered in this chapter is C/AL development applied to the UI: how we can enrich pages with C/AL code.

Finally, we will create navigation elements that assist users in finding the required application components: a role center page and a ...

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