Article #4 - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Business Central Object Types

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Let's see the Business central object types in this article

• Table extension: Provided by MS Dynamics. Table extensions enable the development of associate tables that are connected to Microsoft-defined tables in the underlying product or tables created by third-party solutions.
• Page customization: Page customizations?allow?controls in existing pages to be modified and moved. As they are primarily a tool for use by end-users, they are outside the scope of this book.
• Page extension: The page extension object enhances the functionality of a Dynamics 365 Business Central page object by adding or overriding it. Page extensions allow you to add or remove controls from existing pages.
• Table: In any database, tables are the most basic items. They are the things that you use to store and manipulate information. Tables are used to establish the data structure as well as to store the records.
• Page: Pages are the principal item with which a user will interact, and they behave differently depending on the sort of page you select. Pages are created irrespective of the device on which they will be displayed, allowing the same page to be utilised across mobile, tablet, and online clients. With each of the client types and user roles, pages define how data is prepared and displayed.
• Report: Reports can be used to print or show data from a database. Use reports to arrange and summarise data in order to produce documents like invoices. Reports are used to present data to users in a printed form, on either (preview mode) or through a printer device. Report objects can also be used to update data in processes, whether or not the data is visible.
• Codeunit: Codeunits are storage containers for code used by other objects. Codeunits are always organised into procedures, which are code segments.
• Query: Queries allow you to retrieve data from one or more tables, do calculations, and then output the results as a new data structure. Data from queries can be easily produced into charts, XML, Excel, and OData (Open Data). They can be used as a secondary source of information for pages and reports.
• XMLport: Data can be imported and exported to and from external files using XMLports. The structure of the external file could be in XML or another file type.
• Profile: Role Centers and group page modifications can be defined using profiles.
• Control add-in: HTML5 visualisations based on information from Business Central can be displayed using control add-in objects. These objects can transmit back actions which can be used to start other applications.

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