April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
706 pages
17h 8m
English
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Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Fifth Edition
by Marije Brummel, David Studebaker, Christopher D. Studebaker
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Object Designer Navigation
In many places in the various designers within the Object Designer, there are standard NAV keyboard shortcuts available, for example:
- F3 to create a new empty entry.
- F4 to delete the highlighted entry.
- F5 to access the C/AL Symbol Menu, which shows us a symbol table for the object on which we are working. This isn't just any old symbol table, it is a programmer's assistant. More on this later in this chapter.
- F9 to access underlying C/AL code.
- F11 to do an on-the-fly compile (very useful for error checking as we go).
- Shift + F4 to access properties.
- Ctrl + X, Ctrl + C, and Ctrl + V in normal Windows mode for deletion (or cut), copy, and paste, respectively.
We can cut, copy, and paste C/AL code, even functions, ...
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