Course 8401: Five days; Instructor-Led

Audience

This training material is intended for Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partner employees who sell and implement Microsoft Navision solutions. The curriculum is designed for participants who have completed the Microsoft Navision Development I course and passed the Navision Programming certification exam.

After completing this course, students will understand:

•	Creating solutions following the Navision Implementation Methodology
•	Internal documentation
•	Debugging tools
•	Performance issues
•	Complex data variables and their member functions
•	Multilanguage functionality
•	Analysis of objects
•	Posting routines
•	Architecture of a basic Microsoft Navision document
•	Microsoft Navision dimensions
•	Deploying customized software solutions

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Prerequisites

Before attending this course, it is strongly recommended that students have:

•	Completed Microsoft Navision Development I
•	Passed the Microsoft Navision Development I Certification Exam

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Course Outline

Introduction

This chapter discusses the structure of the Microsoft Navision Development II Course, and the Microsoft Navision Development concepts used within the course.

After completing this chapter, students should be able to:

•	Understand the content of the Microsoft Navision Development II Course.
•	Understand the Microsoft Navision Development concepts that are used in the course.

Chapter 1: Business Case Diagnosis & Analysis

The Diagnosis section provides the “executive summary” of the business case used in the course. The Analysis sections describe in more detail the specific requirements for the system we will be developing. They contain the data models based on those requirements and they explain the basic project plan that we will follow to make the solution a reality.

After completing this chapter, students should be able to:

•	Follow the standard Microsoft Navision Methodology used in developing projects.
•	Understand the business case used, and detail the functional requirements.

Chapter 2: Managing Master Files

This section explains how to create the tables and forms that contain the master data for this course.

After completing this chapter, students should be able to:

•	Write internal documentation.
•	Enable multilanguage functionality.
•	Work with event triggers, specifically table event triggers.
•	Work with the complex data types and their member functions.

Chapter 3: Managing Registrations

This chapter explains how to create the tables and forms necessary to allow the users to create seminar registrations and view a planning overview.

After completing this chapter, students should be able to:

•	Export and import objects as text files.
•	Use multilanguage functionality to create messages for the user.
•	Know how to create matrix forms.
•	Use virtual tables.
•	Use temporary tables.

Chapter 4: Managing Posting

This chapter explains how to create the tables, forms and codeunits necessary to enable posting in the seminar module.

After completing this chapter, students should be able to:

•	Create journal posting routines.
•	Create document posting routines.
•	Write internal documentation for modifications to existing objects.
•	Debug code.
•	Program for low-impact on the application.

Chapter 5: Managing Integration

This chapter explains how to integrate the seminar module features into the standard application and to integrate the Navigate feature.

After completing this chapter, students should be able to:

•	Expand the MenuSuite.
•	Implement Navigate functionality.

Chapter 6: Managing Reporting

This chapter explains how create informational and processing reports for the seminar module.

After completing this chapter, students should be able to:

•	Use report event triggers
•	Use special report functions.
•	Create processing-only reports.

Chapter 7: Managing Statistics

This chapter explains how to create the fields and forms necessary so that the user can view seminar statistics.

After completing this chapter, students should be able to:

•	Learn how to use FlowFields for calculations.

Chapter 8: Managing Dimensions

This chapter explains how to implement standard Microsoft Navision dimensions in the existing features of the seminar module.

After completing this chapter, students should be able to:

•	Learn how to work with dimensions.

Chapter 9: Managing Interfaces

This chapter explains how implement two interfaces into the seminar module.

After completing this chapter, students should be able to:

•	Use OCX.
•	Understand what an automation server is.
•	Work with an XMLPort.

Chapter 10: Deployment

The objective of the Deployment chapter is for participants to learn about some of the activities that take place in the deployment phase of a project.

After completing this chapter, students should be able to:

•	Understand how to roll out customized Microsoft Navision projects out to clients.
•	Use Dataports.
•	Understand Microsoft Navision’s upgrade procedures.

Chapter 11: Course Summary

The objective of the Course Summary is to briefly review what was covered in the course.

Chapter 12: Review Questions

This chapter contains questions to review the topics covered in this course and will help in preparing for the certification test in Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision solution development.

Chapter 13: Additional Exercises

This chapter contains additional exercises in creating the tables and forms necessary for translating seminars, using multiple dimensions with the seminar module and managing seminar planning.

After completing this chapter, students should be able to:

•	Implementing standard Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision multi-language functionality.
•	Implementing standard Microsoft Navision dimension functionality.
•	Creating matrix forms.