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Design Pattern: Observer

Microsoft Dynamics NAV has the built in ability to track all record changes against any table, however it does not always fire the triggers for every table. But with the Observer pattern, you can track all record changes against a defined table or set of tables.…
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NAV Design Pattern: Activity Log

The Activity Log pattern tracks execution of activities. This is a Dynamics NAV specific implementation of the generic Audit Log pattern. In general, integrating with external systems can be very challenging, due to the complexity of the situation – connectivity issues, asynchronous operations, user errors, etc.…
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The “Handled” Pattern

If there was a Pattern of the year award, last year the Arguments table would have won. The year before the Hook pattern. Or maybe that was the year before. This year in my opinion it is the Handled pattern by Thomas Hejlsberg in combination with…
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NAV Design Pattern: Variant Façade

The Variant façade provides a single interface that can take any Record, RecordRef or RecordID as an argument. With this pattern, the code is encapsulated within the single object, with clear separation between common and table specific code. Bron : Dynamics NAV Team Blog Lees meer...