Microsoft Dynamics NAV
by Alex Chow, Laura Nicolàs Lorente, Cristina Nicolàs Lorente, Vjekoslav Babić, David Roys, David Studebaker, Christopher Studebaker, Mark Brummel
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Table objects behave as classes in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and are the base of our application. They are bound to tables in the SQL Server, and need to contain all the fields that will be used in the Page objects.
This does not mean that we cannot add references to other tables in a table object. We can reference to other tables using Flowfields and Flowfilters objects.
Flowfields
When we define a field in a Table, it gets added to the SQL Server table definition automatically, unless we change the FieldClass property. Flowfields and Flowfilters objects are only a part of the Dynamics NAV Metadata. They do not exist as a part of the SQL Server table definition.
If we change the property, we can join fields from other tables that we can display ...
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