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Design Pattern: Data-driven Blocked Entity

This pattern implements a generic mechanism for dynamically restricting and allowing usage of a record by the business process administrator. Problem A Dynamics NAV record can be used in a number of functionalities across the application. There are situations, however, when the administrator wants to restrict…
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Design Pattern: Passwords and sensitive data

By Bogdana Botez at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen This pattern is supported starting from Microsoft Dynamics NAV version 2016. Abstract Protect data like passwords, social security numbers, credit card numbers etc by encrypting it and by placing it in a single table with restricted access. Bron…
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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.…