Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Patterns elements and hierarchy

Many books about patterns use different ways to categorise them. Patterns are closely related to the application building blocks, such as tables, fields, functions, and codeunits. Patterns will help us categorize these elements, so that we can learn different table types, and codeunit types.

Architectural patterns

When a pattern describes table definitions or a methodology to move data from one set of tables to another, we refer to it as an Architectural Pattern.

By learning Architectural patterns, we understand how the application's large building blocks are constructed. There are only a dozen of these patterns that are most commonly used. Examples are Master Data, Journals, and Rules tables.

This does not mean that ...