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The Navision Object Designer is the central module to change/customize the different objects in Dynamics NAV / Navision. You only find the Object Designer in the Dynamics NAV Classic Client - even when you are creating objects reserved for the new Dynamics NAV RoleTailored Client .
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Contents Object Management Must-Know Knowledge Basic Object Management Tips and Tricks Advance Object Management Tips and Tricks Object management in Navision are many things. But here we have tried to collect the different FAQ's that all have to do with handling objects in Navision / Dynamics NAV...
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Hopefully you know that it's really bad practice to do your development directly in your production database . Instead you should always create your customizations in a development database . So when you have changed an Object in Navision then you need to move it to the production database. Better...
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Importing objects is basically just like exporting objects just using import instead of export: File --> Import You can import either Object text files, FOB files or FBK files . But if you import objects that already in the database, then the objects might be conflicting. That will course Navision...
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If you have a Navision backup (the FBK file) with the application objects included, then you can import these objects directly without restoring the whole backup. In the Object designer choose import and select the .FBK file instead of the suggested .FOB or .TXT. That's it! Navision will then import...
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You cannot change the fields in the Object designer, since that is fixed. But you can make a separate C/SIDE table object that looks at a view of the Object table, and add the required audit information to the SQL Object table. You need to use the Query Analyzer (or other SQL tool) for this stuff. This...
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When restoring a subset of objects from a fob or fbk you can filter the list as per a standard list. The objects that are filtered are only imported e.g. Import FOB have objects 50000 to 50050 Filter to ID 50010..50019 then only 10 objects restored