Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Fifth Edition

Handling user entered report options

Part of our report design includes allowing the user to choose fans based on some simple demographic data based on age and gender. We'll need to add two more fields to our Radio Show Fan table definition, one for Gender and the other for Birth Date, from which we can calculate the fan's age, as shown in the following screenshot:

This back and forth process of updating first one object, then a different one, then yet another, is typical of the NAV development process much of the time. Exceptions are those cases where either the task is so simple we think of everything the first time through, or the cases ...