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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

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Published in Dec 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789133936
Pages 764 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Roberto Stefanetti Roberto Stefanetti
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Roberto Stefanetti is a functional and technical consultant, who has worked on education and training for companies, partners, and clients. He currently works on Microsoft systems, especially ERP and related environments. He started working on Navision in 2004, both as a developer and as a functional consultant, and he is now more involved in consulting and managing projects than in development. He has been an MVP in business application since 2016 and a Microsoft Education Influencer since 2017. Roberto's blog is one of the most widely read in the world (with more than 1 million page visits). He has also published articles on many digital publications (such as MSDynamicsWorld, NAVUG Magazine, and others) and reviewed a number of books.
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Alex Chow Alex Chow
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Alex Chow has been working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, formerly Navision, since 1999. His customers range from $2 million a year small enterprises to $500 million a year multinational corporations. With a background in implementing all functions and modules inside and outside of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Alex has encountered and resolved the most practical through to the most complex requirements and business rules. He founded AP Commerce, Inc. in 2005, a full-service Dynamics NAV service center. Alex has also written the books Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development and Implementing Dynamics NAV, Third Edition, both by Packt. He lives in southern California with his wife and two lovely daughters.
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Exploring Dynamics NAV and MSDYN365BC – Overview Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 – An Overview General Considerations Implementation Process – Partner's Perspective Implementation Process – Customer's Perspective Migrating Data Upgrading to Dynamics NAV and MSDYN365BC Development Considerations Implementing Functional Changes Data Analysis and Reporting Debugging with Dynamics NAV and MSDYN365BC Popular Reporting Options Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Working and Developing with Docker and Sandboxes Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Converting data from the old system to Microsoft Dynamics NAV's or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central's needs

The company's legacy system will probably have a very different data structure. However, in the meantime, a conversion process must be done. In this section, we'll give you a few tips for converting data to meet Microsoft Dynamics NAV's or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central's needs.

In most of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central tables (including all master and document tables), the primary key uses a code field type. The code field type is alphanumeric and is stored in the database in uppercase characters. You can write either numbers or characters in a code field. If a code contains only numbers, people expect the data to be ordered by a number. But Microsoft Dynamics NAV does not act this way. A code is always sorted by a character, even if it only contains numbers. This may confuse the user, so using fixed-length number codes is recommended...

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Profile icon Roberto Stefanetti
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Roberto Stefanetti is a functional and technical consultant, who has worked on education and training for companies, partners, and clients. He currently works on Microsoft systems, especially ERP and related environments. He started working on Navision in 2004, both as a developer and as a functional consultant, and he is now more involved in consulting and managing projects than in development. He has been an MVP in business application since 2016 and a Microsoft Education Influencer since 2017. Roberto's blog is one of the most widely read in the world (with more than 1 million page visits). He has also published articles on many digital publications (such as MSDynamicsWorld, NAVUG Magazine, and others) and reviewed a number of books.
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Alex Chow has been working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, formerly Navision, since 1999. His customers range from $2 million a year small enterprises to $500 million a year multinational corporations. With a background in implementing all functions and modules inside and outside of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Alex has encountered and resolved the most practical through to the most complex requirements and business rules. He founded AP Commerce, Inc. in 2005, a full-service Dynamics NAV service center. Alex has also written the books Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development and Implementing Dynamics NAV, Third Edition, both by Packt. He lives in southern California with his wife and two lovely daughters.
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