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title = "Easy Update Of Setup Or Supplementary Information"
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_Originally by Anders Larsen at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen_
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## Abstract
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Users or the administrator must regularly update setup or supplementary information in the day-to-day business, such as setting up a new type of customer. This setup task often arrives when their focus is on registration and execution instead of setup.
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The navigation experience around these extra steps is often quite troublesome and time-consuming. To enable users to easily perform the needed update, a guide often gives the best support.
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To guide users, we can prompt them with a dialog on which they can update the setup or supplementary information instantly and easily, so that they can proceed with the business task without being side-tracked.
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## Usage
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Define two functions in the setup or supplementary table: One for verifying if the needed information is available, and another for exposing the page that contains the fields that the user must update.
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Call the code. For example:
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```
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Local IsXAvailable : Boolean
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If field X <> '' then
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Exit(True)
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Exit(false)
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VerifyAndSetX
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If IsXAvailable then
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Exit;
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If Confirm('Field X is missing a value. Do you want to update it now?') then
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Open the card page in edit mode
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If not IsXAvailable then
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Error(Field X is missing a value. Please correct it.)
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```
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The calling code
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```
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..
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SetupTable.VerifyAndSetX
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..
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```
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## NAV Specific Example
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In the **Sales & Receivables Setup** table (311) for the DK version, the following procedures have been added:
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```al
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Local Procedure IsOIOUBLPathAvailable(...)
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Procedure VerifyAndSetOIOUBLPath(...)
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```
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The code in the **Sales & Receivables Setup** table can now be called directly from the related processing codeunit, such as the **Sales-Post + Print** codeunit (82).
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Were the code is called:
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```al
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IF ("EAN No." <> '') THEN
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SalesSetup.VerifyAndSetOIOUBLPathSetup(SalesHeader."Document Type");
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```
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If the setup is not updated properly, the user is prompted to update it as follows.
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[![ ][image0]][anchor0]
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Choosing **Yes** opens the related setup page.
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[![ ][image1]][anchor1]
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## NAV Usages
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* Report 206, **Sales invoice**
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* Table 79, **Company Information**
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* In OIOUBL fields (DK version) during posting/printing of a sales invoice.
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## Ideas for Improvement
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Make a more generic platform implementation that launches the corresponding card page for Rec on Rec.testfield with an asterisk mark for the field that needs a proper value.
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## Related Topics
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The anti-pattern is to do a testfield on a field that is not in the table that you are currently updating.
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The test field message can often be confusing because the pages are often named differently than the tables, which can lead to misunderstanding and context-switching.
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{{< youtube oeASJN-zqTo>}}
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[anchor0]: 0654.easy-update-1.png
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[anchor1]: 4024.easy-update-2.png
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[anchor2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeASJN-zqTo&list=PLhZ3P-LY7CqmVszuvtJLujFyHpsVN0U_w&index=18
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[image0]: 0654.easy-update-1.png
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[image1]: 4024.easy-update-2.png
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