Git hooks have been on my “to mess about with and learn a little some day” list for a while. It’s the old conundrum: I might use them if I knew what they could do, but I’m not going to learn about them until I’ve got a use for them. Chickens-and-eggs for developers.
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NAV2016 | Hooks vs. Events
One question that is raised a lot lately is how events and hooks are compared and when to use events and when to use hooks.
The answer to this question is very simple if you are not on NAV2016, as one of my Partner Ready Software friends said at NAVTechDays: you can only use hooks.
NAV Design Pattern of the Week – the Hooks Pattern
A new series of NAV Design Patterns is just starting. To make a good beginning, the first one is not chosen randomly. It is indeed a very powerful pattern – the “Hooks”, by Eric Wauters. It is also different from most patterns you’ve seen so far, in that it does not exist in the core product. “How can it be? A powerful NAV pattern which is not in NAV?”, you wonder.
This is exactly the point of the Hooks. It is a partner pattern – something you, as a partner, can use, when you implement your customization. And if done correctly, it has the potential to make the next upgrade superfast.
A Table Hook to minimize the upgrade work
In a line with the methods introduced by Partner Ready Software I am now upgrading old code to NAV 2013 R2 with the goal to modify the standard objects a little as possible.
I don’t recall Mark, Waldo, Gary or Vjeko speaking about a Table Hook but I decided to go that way anyway. As an example I have about twenty new field for the Customer Table. Instead of creating these fields in table 18 I create a new table that I call Customer Hook. The Hook Table must include the fields from the primary key and the primary key it self from the Master Table.