Microsoft Dynamics C5 og NAV

Lukasz Zoglowek & Thomas S. Jensen

Web Client 2.0 for NAV 2013R2

Software Development Engineers Microsoft, MDCC

Agenda

Web Client 2.0 for NAV 2013R2

• What’s new in the Web client• Demo• Client extensibility framework• Demo• Questions

What’s new in the Web client

New Modern UI

• Restyled to modern style look and feel

• Inspired by Office 365 SharePoint look

• New navigation, top-bar, icons

Chart Support

• Implemented as JavaScript control add-in

• Utilizes HighCharts JS library• Uses the same programming model

as business charts in Windows Client

Actions

• Action tiles• Activities• Contextual actions for sub pages• Contextual actions for grid lines• New button in a Office 365 style

Page Search Improvements

• Includes search result categories• Tasks• Lists• Reports and Analysis• Documents• Archive• Administration

Edit/View Improvements

• Date picker for date fields• Focus on content button

Sorting and Filtering

• Quick filter replaced by the column filter

• Sort using the header link or context menu

• Sorting supported one column at a time

Lookup Improvements

• Create new entity• Navigate to advanced lookup• Lookups and filtering in report

request pages

Notes and Record Links

• Manage your notes/record links to NAV entities

Help

• Tooltips• Field help• Page help• Column help

Client Extensibility Framework

Extensibility History

NAV 2009R2

• Windows client extensibility introduced

• Based on .NET and Windows Forms

NAV 2013

• Windows client extensibility extended

• No support in Web client

Extensibility History

NAV 2013R2

• New client extensibility framework• Based on HTML and JavaScript• Supported by both Windows and

Web clients• Windows Forms based extensibility

framework still supported for Windows client

Extensibility Highlights

• Control add-in will work both in Windows and Web clients

• Client side code written in JavaScript

• Control add-in is a self-contained resource containing manifest, JavaScript code, images, and style sheets

• Control add-in is stored in the NAV database and is automatically deployed to the client computer at runtime

Web ServerIIS

Microsoft DynamicsNAV Server

DatabaseSQL Server

ClientWeb Browser

Internet

Extensibility DeploymentRead control

add-inUnpack and deploy

control add-inShow control add-in

in HTML iframe

Control

add-in

Web ServerIIS

Microsoft DynamicsNAV Server

DatabaseSQL Server

ClientWeb Browser

Internet

Extensibility CallbackForward callbackto C/AL trigger

Issue callback from JavaScript code

Forward call toJavaScript function

Issue callfrom C/AL code

Extensibility Artifacts

• Manifest – XML document describing control add-in

• JavaScript code

• Images, style sheets – optional

• .NET interface assembly - declaring control add-in interface for C/AL compiler

DemoBuild a control add-in using the client extensibility framework

Extensibility API

• Hosted in iframe – add content to DIV element called ‘controlAddIn’

• Microsoft.Dynamics.NAV.InvokeExtensibilityMethod(‘ControlAddInReady’)

• CurrPage.AddIn.Hello(Name)

• Microsoft.Dynamics.NAV.GetImageResource(‘Image1.png’)

Questions

EvaluationCreate a Text message on your phone and send it to 1919 with the content:

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ThomasPerformance

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Match of technical Level

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Comments(optional)

Evaluation Scale: 1 = Very bad 2 = Bad 3 = Relevant 4 = Good 5 = Very Good!

Questions:• Speaker Performance• Relevance according to your work • Match of technical level according to

published level• Comments

LukaszPerformance

(1 to 5)

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