Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Fifth Edition
by Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker
WITH-DO statement
When we are writing code referring to fields within a record, the most specific syntax for field references is the fully qualified reference [ RecordName.FieldName ]. When referring to the field City in the record Customer, use the reference Customer.City.
In many C/AL instances, the record name qualifier is implicit because the compiler assumes a default record qualifier based on code context. This happens automatically for variables within a page bounded to a table. The bound table becomes the implicit record qualifier for fields referenced in the Page object. In a Table object, the table is the implicit record qualifier for fields referenced in the C/AL in that object. In Report and XMLport objects, the Data Item record ...
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