Microsoft Dynamics NAV
by Alex Chow, Laura Nicolàs Lorente, Cristina Nicolàs Lorente, Vjekoslav Babić, David Roys, David Studebaker, Christopher Studebaker, Mark Brummel
Variant variables
Although it is not generally recommended, it might be required from time-to-time to be able to call a function with different types of records as parameters. With the strongly typed record variable parameters, this is not possible. However, we can use the Variant datatype as a workaround. We can store every variable type in NAV in a Variant.
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All the C/AL code that we write is converted into C# code in the background, and this C# code generates a class for each object. The Variant datatype maps to the C# type of the object. So, if we use this datatype as a parameter of a function, we can call this function with any object in NAV.
In the object, we can change the object back to a specific table using the RecordRef datatype if ...
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