Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Fifth Edition

Creating a simple table

To invoke the table designer, open the NAV 2017 Development Environment and the database in which we will be doing our development. In the Object Designer, click on Table (in the left column of buttons) and click New (in the bottom row of buttons). Enter the first field number as 1 (the default is 1), and increment each remaining field number by 10 (the default is 1). Sometimes, it is useful to leave large gaps (such as jumping from 80 to 200 or 500) when the next set of fields have a particular purpose not associated with the prior set of fields.

The fields combining the primary key can use the numbers up to 9 since they are very unlikely to change. If this is changed, there is a substantial amount of refactoring ...