Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Fifth Edition

Table triggers

To display the triggers with the table open in the Table Designer, click on the C/AL Code icon or F9 or View | C/AL Code. The first (top) table trigger is the Documentation trigger. This trigger is somewhat misleadingly named as it only serves as a location for needed documentation. No C/AL code in a Documentation trigger is executed. There are no syntax or format rules here, but we should follow a standard format of some type.

Every change to an object should be briefly documented in the Documentation trigger. The use of a standard format for such entries makes it easier to create them as well as to understand them two years later. Here's an example:

CD.02 - 2017-03-16  Change to track when new customer added  - Added field ...