Summary

"Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you."                                                                                                                 - David Schwarzer

In this chapter, we covered Object Designer navigation, along with navigation of the individual Designers, such as Table, Page, Report, and so on. We covered a number of C/AL language areas, including functions and how they may be used, variables of various types (both development and system), basic C/AL syntax, expressions, and operators. Some of the essential C/AL functions that we covered included user dialogs, SETRANGE filtering, GET, variations of FIND, BEGIN-END for code structures, plus IF-THEN for basic process flow control. Finally, we got some hands-on experience by adding validation code to a table and creating a new report that included embedded C/AL code and a Request Page...