One of the oldest features of AL is the use of the web-client-based Designer to generate pageextension objects. In this video I show how to use it, check it out:
Tag Archives: Design
Contributing to “ALGuidelines.Dev”
I recently blogged about this new initiative .. the revival of the “NAV Design Patterns Wiki”: ALGuidelines.Dev . Time to talk a bit more on how you can contribute. I’m documenting this while I’m writing my very first pattern 😉 (I admit, I had this blogpost laying around for a while ;-)).
Regain control of your design extensions
In this video, I show how to start aggregating your design extensions into a single extension that’s managed with Visual Studio Code. This is a great way for customers consultants to get started with development and a great method for customers to organize the chaos.
Designing Indented Hierarchy Lists
Using the indentation properties in AL, you can display rows in a parent-child structure.
A row that’s indented from a row above is considered a child of that row. The row above is considered the parent. Indenting rows can help organize related records in the list and make it more readable for the user. You can display indented hierarchy lists on any page type, including List pages, Worksheets, and ListParts. Pages can also be editable.
There are two kinds of indented hierarchy lists: fixed and collapsible. In a fixed hierarchy, rows that are indented are always shown. In a collapsible, users can collapse and expand parent rows to show and hide child records.
Development Design pattern for Best Fit Filtering
In our Org we have quite a few places were data is auto populated based on other data selected. This however comes with allot of rules. When I started, we had allot of issues where sometimes the incorrect data is selected. This required a rewrite of the filtering to find the correct data but often caused the “fix” to break another set of data combinations.
Business Central: Simplified working for developers with the improved designer
In addition to Visual Studio code, developers can also use the Designer to test and adjust visual content on page objects in Business Central.
Slaying the behemoth, Extension Design Principles
If you have been following me at all for the past months you will already know that at The Learning Network, we have been busy creating our first extensions. We have had our first extension in production since June and the grand total is now at eight, and several more in the works