The following shortcut keys are quite helpful, if you prefer using the keyboard instead of the mouse. You can definitely increase your work speed in daily doing using these shortcut keys.
Tag Archives: Keys
NAV 2013 | Keys in Symbol Menu
One of the things that I noticed while doing some development in NAV2013 is that keys are now part of the Symbol Menu (F5) in the C/AL editor! This allows you to select all active keys for example when using SETCURRENTKEY. Very handy, since most of the time you had to go to for example the design of the table to look for keys, copy and paste, and then implement the quotes. How cool is this! NAV2013 rocks!
Keys, Queries, and Performance
When you write a query that searches through a subset of the records in a table, you need to be careful when you define the keys both in the table and in the query so that Microsoft Dynamics NAV can quickly identify this subset. For example, the entries for a specific customer will usually be a small subset of a table containing entries for all the customers.
NAV 2009 Field Groups (DropDown) and the usage of Keys
Recently I had to change the list of available fields in a DropDown box on a page. As you might already know, a DropDown is a result of a field having a TableRelation.