Common mistakes we make in C/AL - Vol. 3 - Tips, Tricks & Facts #8

In this post I will talk about Significance of Using CALCSUMS in C/AL coding. 

Before writing about this topic I would mention here that, if a tool (or function) is available then we must use it to our system's benefit. Tools or functions are available in AL (or any other development envo.) to reduce the time taken by transactions and faster output generation.

You can find the detailed definition of CALCSUMS on MSDN. This function must be used to calculate sums of a Decimal field. However, the scope of CALCSUMS has been widened to Integer, BigInteger and Duration type fields along with Decimal type fields from NAV 2016 and up.

Common mistakes we make in C/AL - Vol. 1 - Tips, Tricks & Facts #6

Hi peeps, starting a new series of posts on what are the common mistakes made by developers like us which have bad, sometimes worse, impacts on database transactions. And what the kind of coding styles we must avoid to keep the code neat and clean. And what are the DO's and DON'T's for writing C/AL code.

We gotta remember that we are not the last developers who will write a particular code somewhere in the NAV objects. There will be more developers after us who will be carrying the torch and some of them might run into some code which was written by us.

Therefore, your code must better be understandable and optimized!