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Microsoft Dynamics NAV
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV

by Alex Chow, Laura Nicolàs Lorente, Cristina Nicolàs Lorente, Vjekoslav Babić, David Roys, David Studebaker, Christopher Studebaker, Mark Brummel
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1235 pages
28h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Converting data from the old system to Dynamics NAV's needs

The company's legacy system will probably have a very different data structure. However, in the meantime, a conversion process must be done. In this section, we'll explain a few tips to convert data to meet Dynamics NAV's needs.

In most of the Dynamics NAV tables (including all master and document tables), the primary key uses a code field type. The code field type is alphanumeric and is stored in the database in uppercase characters. You can write either numbers or characters in a Code field. If a code contains only numbers, people expect the data to be ordered by a number. But Dynamics NAV does not act this way. A code is always sorted by a character, even if it only contains numbers. ...

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