Part of our report design includes allowing the user to choose fans based on some simple demographic data, such as age and gender. We'll need to add two more fields to our Radio Show Fan table definition, one for Gender and the other for Birth Date, from which we can calculate the fan's age, as shown in the following screenshot:
This back and forth process of updating one object, then a different one, then yet another, is typical of the Business Central development process most of the time. Exceptions are those cases where either the task is so simple we think of everything the first time through, or the cases where we create a completely documented, full-featured design before any development starts (but nobody thinks of everything, there are always changes; our challenge is to keep the changes under control).
An advantage to the more flexible approach we are following is that it allows us to view (and share with others) intermediate versions...
An advantage to the more flexible approach we are following is that it allows us to view (and share with others) intermediate versions...
