Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Fifth Edition

Creating a WDTU Role Center Ribbon

If we were creating a role center to be used in a real production environment, we would likely be defining a new Activities Page, new Cues, a new or modified Cue table, new FactBoxes, and so on. However, since our primary purpose here is learning, we'll take the shortcut of piggybacking on the existing role center and simply add our WDTU actions to the foundation of that role-existing center.

There are several steps to be taken to define our WDTU Role Center Ribbon using the Developer tools. The steps we need to do for our WDTU actions are as follows:

1. Define one or more new ribbon categories for the WDTU actions.
2. Create the WDTU action controls in the Action Designer.
3. Assign the WDTU action controls to ...