Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

Object elements

Each object has its own attributes; the structure of a table has four sections:

• The first block contains metadata for the overall table—the table type
• The fields section describes the data elements that make up the table—their name and the type of data they can store
• The keys section contains the definitions of the keys that the table needs to support
• The final section details the triggers and code that can run on the table

A table then contains Table properties, Fields, Keys, and Triggers, as we can see in the following diagram: